| Material name | Rock Salt (Sodium Chloride) | |||||
| Composition | NaCl | |||||
| Chemical formula weight | 58.44 | |||||
| System | Cubic | |||||
| Temperature (ºC) | 25 | |||||
| a (Å), b (Å), c (Å) | 5.640(8) | 5.640(8) | 5.640(8) | |||
| α (deg), β (deg), γ (deg) | 90 | 90 | 90 | |||
| Unit cell volume (Å3) | 179 | |||||
| Calculated density (g/㎝3) | 2.17 | |||||
| Z | 4 | |||||
| Space group | Fm3m (No.225) | |||||
| atom | site | g | x/a | y/b | z/c | B (Å2) |
| Na | 4a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| Cl | 4b | 1 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | - |
| Comment | The unit of lattice constants (a, b, and c) was converted from the x unit (xu) (reference data) to the angstrom (Å). | |||||
Reference: J.E. Nickels, M.A. Fineman, and W.E. Wallace, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 53, 625 (1949).