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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

will u explain physically that how coordination no. in simple cubic cell is 6?

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15 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of AKASH GOYAL AskiitiansExpert-IITD
15 Years ago

Dear Student

The coordination number is simply the number of nearest neighbours of an atom/ion. Look at or draw a cube, you will see it has 6 faces or sides. If the neighbours are arranged like a cube around the central atom/ion, there are 6 nearest neighbours just as there are 6 faces: 4 around the body of the cube, 1 above and 1 below.

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