diffraction. The lattice parameter and the unit-cell volume decrease continuously as the
temperature is increased from T= 2 K to about T= 200 K. After exhibiting minima at about 200
K they increase with increasing temperature linearly up to about 305 K, the maximum
temperature investigated during the present experiment. We attribute the negative thermal
expansion of ReO 3 to be the results of rigid antiphase rotations of the neighboring ReO 6 …