Written by Dr Chas McCaw, on sabbatical from Winchester College at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge cm520@cam.ac.uk
Introduction & Acknowledgements (please read this first)
Using Jmol to display structures. Please allow a few moments for Jmol to load the applets. Just click on the structures and you can rotate them. Using the wheel on the mouse you can zoom in and out of the structures.
Illustrations of structures of general interest (in preparation)
Graphite (in preparation)
Buckminsterfullerene (in preparation)
Ice (in preparation)
White phosphorus (in preparation)
Benzene (in preparation)
Cyclohexane (in preparation)
Adamantane (in preparation)
Cubic crystal systems:
Sodium (BCC*) basic (5 pages)
Sodium advanced (2 pages)
Caesium chloride (8:8 coordination) basic (3 pages)
Caesium chloride advanced (2 pages)
Polonium (SC*) (in preparation)
Cubic crystal systems with structures based on cubic close-packing:
Copper (CCP*) basic (4 pages)
Copper advanced (2 pages)
Halite (NaCl, 6:6 coordination) basic (5 pages)
Halite advanced (2 pages)
Fluorite (CaF2, 8:4 coordination) basic (5 pages)
Fluorite and Antifluorite (Na2O, 4:8 coordination)) advanced (7 pages)
Zinc blende (ZnS, 4:4 coordination) basic (6 pages)
Zinc blende advanced (4 pages)
Diamond basic (6 pages)
Diamond advanced (5 pages)
Crystal systems other than cubic (in preparation)
Hexagonal: Magnesium (HCP*) (in preparation)
Trigonal: Alpha quartz (SiO2, 4:2 coordination) (in preparation)
Triclinic: Pyrite (Fool's Gold, FeS2) (in preparation)
Monoclinic: Sulfur (in preparation)
Orthorhombic: Sulfur (in preparation)
Tetragonal: Rutile (TiO2, 6:3 coordination) (in preparation)
*BCC=Body-centred cubic
*SC=Simple cubic
*CCP=Cubic close-packed
*HCP=Hexagonal close-packed