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The CaF2 Unit Cell | |
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The Calcium Fluoride Structure | |
The structure of calcium fluoride, the fluorite structure, can be described as a simple cubic array of fluoride ions with calcium ions occupying half of the cubic holes. Click on the picture to the right to build the calcium fluoride structure. ---> However, the unit cell of calcium fluoride has calcium ions at the corners.
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cubic layers of fluoride ions are found in ionic solids with the fluorite
structure
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on the picture now to display the unit cell.
The
unit cell of fluorite has calcium ions at the corners.
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