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This journal isSingle crystals of Bi 2 Mo 2.66 W 0.34 O 12 with dimensions up to 70 mm × 55 mm × 45 mm were successfully grown using a top-seeded solution growth (TSSG) method with MoO 3 -WO 3 mixture as a flux. The material crystallizes in the centrosymmetric space group P2 1 /c (No. 14), with unit cell parameters of a = 7.7212(8) Å, b = 11.4938(12) Å, c = 11.9970(12) Å, and β = 115.5070 (10)°. The as-grown crystal exhibits {100}, {010}, {011}, {110}, {021}, {012}, {120}, {-111}, {-102}, and {1-1-2} facets, which are in good agreement with the predicted growth morphology based upon the Bravais-Friedel and Donnay-Harker (BFDH) method.High-resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD) measurement on the (040)-faced plate shows that the full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the rocking curve is 54'', which indicates high crystal quality. Our measurements show that it melts congruently and exhibits a wide transmission range from 475 nm to 5200 nm. It is worth noting that Bi 2 Mo 2.66 W 0.34 O 12 has a large birefringence (∆n = 0.24 at 480 nm), indicating that the crystal would be a promising polarized optical material.