JEE Main Chemistry question

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NaCl crystals possesses:

(A)Simple cubic lattice
(B)Face centred cubic latticeCorrect
(C)Body centred cubic lattice
(D)Octahedral lattice

Answer: (B)

Solution

Sodium chloride crystallises in the rock-salt structure, which is a face-centred cubic (fcc) arrangement of chloride ions with sodium ions occupying all the octahedral holes (or equivalently, two

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Question ID VK-137780