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Structure & lattice Anions and cations Coordination number Examples Rock salt (face centered cubic) Example NaCl Anions in Cubic closed packing. Cations in Octahedral holes Coordination number of anions is 6(1 anion is surrounded by 6 cations) Coordination number of cations is 6(1 cation is surrounded by 6 anion) 6:6 (octahedral) All sodium and Pottasium halides Very common (inc. 'ionics', 'covalents' & 'intermetallics' ) Most alkali halides (CsCl,
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