Keywords: Sodium chloride crystal.png Ionlattice-fcc svg The Sodium Chloride Crystal Structure Each atom has six nearest neighbors with octahedral geometry This arrangement is known as cubic close packed ccp or face-centered cubic fcc Light blue Na<sup>+</sup><br> Dark green Cl<sup>-</sup> H Padleckas made this image file by June 2005 for use in the articles Sodium Chloride and Ionic Crystal in Wikipedia by modifying the existing image file en Image Sodium_chloride_crystal jpg from Wikipedia created and released into the public domain by User Walkerma 23 57 14 Jun 2005 UTC H Padleckas en Image Sodium_chloride_crystal jpg Crystal structure of sodium chloride |