**4.8.4 Cadmium vanado-iodoapatite**

Synthetic cadmium apatites containing iodine such as Cd5(VO4)3I (space group P63/M, *a* = 10.307 Å, *c* = 6.496 Å and Z = 2 [142],[143]) were prepared, but other apatites containing iodine are unknown [142],[194],[186]. Cd5(VO4)3I can be grown form the flux of Cd3(VO4)2 and the excess of CdI2 in the platinum crucible [142].
