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If found a few places that suggest that CO2 1 has a face center cubic with 4 CO2 atoms in the unit cell. Does this sound right? I could also use some literature source that backs this up.
jd1828 said:If found a few places that suggest that CO2 1 has a face center cubic with 4 CO2 atoms in the unit cell. Does this sound right? I could also use some literature source that backs this up.
Mike H said:No time to figure this out (am in a bit of a rush), but I remembered that this guy out in California did some work on this topic a while back and managed to find the citation via Google which may help:
C.S. Yoo, et al (1999) Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 (26): 5527-5530.
I would think a face-centered cubic structure would be OK as a first try, though. As I had to explain to one of my students a while back, you see the difference between the strength of weak chemical interactions versus covalent interactions when comparing carbon dioxide (dry ice) and silicon dioxide (quartz) quite clearly...
The structure of solid CO2 is face-centered cubic with 4 atoms.
The atoms in solid CO2 are arranged in a face-centered cubic structure, meaning that there is an atom at the center of each cube face and one at each corner.
There are 4 atoms present in solid CO2.
The face-centered cubic structure of solid CO2 allows for close packing of atoms, making it a highly stable and dense solid.
No, the face-centered cubic structure is a common structure for many solids, including other compounds such as metals and alloys.