Chemistry

Nick arsenide has a hcp array of nickle, with arsenic inside the octahedral holes. Also called nickeline or niccolite Medieval smelte...

Wurtzite is the less common mineral form of ZnS. Its structure is below: It is a hcp array of anions with cations inside half the tetra...

Another structure of stoichiometry MX is the sphalerite structure, also known as the zincblende structure. The names are from a particu...

The ceasium chloride structure is usually adopted by ions which are similarly sized. One exception to this is ammonium chloride: This i...

A much less common structure for compounds of the form AX is the ceasium chloride structure: "Body-centered cubic" would be ...

The rock-salt structure is a simple crystal structure of the form AX, it is adopted by sodium chloride: In the case of NaCl, it is a fc...

The coordination number of an atom describes the number of nearest neighbors. Close-packed atoms have a coordination number of 12: 6 sur...