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Carbon and sodium chloride are both extended structures. What are the main differences between these two kinds of extended structures?

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The most common crystal structure of diamond is called diamond cubic; on the other hand, sodium chloride has a cubic unit cell.

Step-by-step explanation:

A diamond cubic lattice can be thought of as two interpenetrating face-centered cubic lattices with one displaced by 1/4 of the diagonal along a cubic cell, or as one lattice with two atoms associated with each lattice point .

Sodium chloride is best thought of as a face-centered cubic (fcc) array of anions with an interpenetrating fcc cation lattice (or vice-versa).

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