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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

HOw to determine the co ordination number of NH4Cl , NH4br etc ?

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12 Years agoGrade 12
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12 Years ago

The NH4Cl has a simple cubic lattice structure similar to CsCl structure. The NH+ ion is located at 0,0,0,0 and one Cl– ion at ½, ½, ½ separated by one-half of the body diagonal of the unit cube. We can see one molecule per unit cell with each ion at the centre of a cube of ions. Thus, the co-ordination number is 8.

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