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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

In the zinc blende structure , zinc ions occupy alternate tetrahedral voids and S2- ions exists as ccp. The coordination number of zinc ion and s ion are respectively?

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ZnS occurs in two common polytypes, zincblende (also ... a 1:1 stoichiometry of Zn:S; a coordination of 4 for each ion