“…The group of the AB 2 O 6 vanadates is the richest one in terms of polymorphism. For example, the compounds AV 2 O 6 present a monoclinic structure of space group C2/m when A = Mn, Cd, Mg, or Zn [5,6]; meanwhile, depending on the temperature of synthesis, at room pressure the structure of CoV 2 O 6 can be monoclinic (α−phase) or triclinic (γ−phase) [7,8,9], and it is unequivocally triclinic when A = Ni, Cu. The vanadates with A = Ni, Mg, Co, Zn, Mn and Cd were produced in the columbite-type structure in 1973 by using conditions of synthesis of high pressure/high temperature (HPHT) [10]; at the time only partial studies on the structure were done.…”