Chemistry
Asked by Anusha R · 5 years ago
I learnt that ZnO has a hexagonal crystal system. I was expecting that cations or anions would occupy the lattice points in hcp while voids would be occupied by anions or cations respectively. But while googling the ZnO structure, I found this structure below which was confusing because of my notion about lattice point occupied only by cation/anion while voids occupied by its countercharged part.
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But after close inspection of this above structure, I thought maybe the lattice point is occupied by the molecule ZnO itself while voids are left unoccupied as opposed to the cation/anion occuping the lattice point and anion/cation occuping the voids. Because only then,this structure is possible. Am I right in thinking so?