Sodium Chloride is an alkali halide with an fcc crystal structure. The basis is two ions, a sodium cation and a chlorine anion. The crystal lattice parameter is 0.563 nm. The diagram shows both a unit ...

Argon is an inert gas in group VIII A of the periodic table with atomic number 18, an atomic weight of 39.948, and a density of 1.40 Mg/m 3. In the solid state it forms an fcc crystal with a melting ...

Notice that the octahedral holes are along the edges (for a net of three cations) and in the center of the cube (one more cation). Thus we have four anions (FCC) and four cations, which corresponds ...