CsCl

See Housecroft and Constable 3rd Edition p 282

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Unit cell of CsCl

extended structure

The CsCl structure consists of a simple cubic array of Cl- ions with an interpenetrating simple cubic array of Cs+ ions.

Both the Cs+ ions and the Cl- ions are 8-coordinate. The unit cell contains 8x(1/8) Cl- ions and 1 Cs+ ion.

Extended structure

unit cell

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