Crystal Lattice Structures:	Reference Date:  1 Sep 1995
	Last Modified: 21 Oct 2004

The NaCl (B1) Structure

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• Prototype: NaCl
• Pearson Symbol: cF8
• Strukturbericht Designation: B1
• Space Group: Fm3m (Cartesian and lattice coordinate listings available)
• Number: 225
• Reference: Kittel Introduction to Solid State Physics, p. 17.
• Other Compounds with this Structure: AgCl, BaS, CaO, CeSe, DyAs, GdN, KBr, Lap, LiCl, LiF, MgO, NaBr, NaF, NiO, PrBi, PuC, RbF, ScN, SrO, TbTe, UC, YN, YbO, ZrO
• Primitive Vectors:

  A1	=	½ a Y + ½ a Z
  A2	=	½ a X + ½ a Z
  A3	=	½ a X + ½ a Y

• Basis Vectors:

  B1	=		0		(Na)	(4a)
  B2	=	½ A1 + ½ A2 + ½ A3	=	½ aX + ½ aY + ½ aZ	(Cl)	(4b)

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