Image:Sodium chloride crystal.png

The Sodium Chloride Crystal Structure. Each atom has six nearest neighbors, with octahedral geometry. This arrangement is known as cubic close packed (ccp).

Light blue = Na⁺
Dark green = Cl^-

H Padleckas made this image file by June 2005 for use in the articles "Sodium Chloride" and "Ionic Crystal" in Wikipedia by modifying the existing image file Image:Sodium_chloride_crystal.jpg from Wikipedia created by User:Walkerma. H Padleckas 23:57, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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