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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.

 

Simple cubic layers of fluoride ions are found in ionic solids with the fluorite structure
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