In a sodium chloride crystal, the sodium and chlorine ions arrange themselves in a repeating pattern known as a lattice.

Pure iron can have two different crystal structures as its temperature is increased from room temperature to its melting point. At room temperature it is body-centered cubic, between 912 and 1394 C if ...

The electronic configuration of Aluminum is (Ne)(3s) 2 (3p) 1, and it has an atomic radius of 0.143 nm. At room temperature Aluminum has the face-centered-cubic crystal structure with a basis of one ...

To create BC8, an eight-atom body-centered cubic crystal exhibiting a 30% greater resistance to compression than diamond, would require conditions found in the center of carbon-rich exoplanets.