Engineering
Chemistry
Classification of Solids
Vander Waal Forces and Weak Forces
Structure of Some Important Compounds
Question
The following image is a cross section of a solid crystal of Iodine (I2).
What type of crystal is represented by this Iodine solid?
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Solution
Here, Iodine crystallizes into ionic type crystal because the given diagram is of simple cubic unit cell which are very orderly arranged i.e. Iodine atoms at body corners.