Sodium Chloride is an alkali halide with an fcc crystal structure. The basis is two ions, a sodium cation and a chlorine anion. The crystal lattice parameter is 0.563 nm. The diagram shows both a unit ...

A dot and cross diagram for sodium chloride suggests that it is made up of pairs of sodium and chloride ions. It is not. A 3D construction model shows how the ions are arranged in a lattice ...

SHENZHEN -- Chinese scientists, in collaboration with their counterparts from the Republic of Korea, have observed the dissolution process of salt in water at the atomic level for the first time ...