ZnS Example
Names: Zinc Sulfide or Zinc Blende. This structure is built from tetrahedral units. The pompom inside represents a zinc ion and the clear tetrahedron represents four sulfide ions in a tetrahedral arrangement around the zinc. |
Construction
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1. Build a corner-shared tetrahedral layer. |
2. Build another tetrahedral layer. |
3. Build a third tetrahedral layer.
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4. Stack two tetrahedral layers |
5. Stack three tetrahedral layers |
Alternate representations for this structure (all views show identical structures):
Polyhedral ZnS model assembled using the kit.