Oxides rock salt structure

Estimate the density of each of the following solids from the atomic radii of the ions given in Fig. 1.48 (a) calcium oxide (rock-salt structure, Fig. 5.39) (b) cesium bromide (cesium chloride structure, Fig. 5.41). 

Co304 with an excess of n-butyl lithium results in further lithiation of the oxide particles, but with a concomitant extrusion of very finely divided transition metal from the rock salt structure. Highly lithiated iron oxide particles are pyrophoric if exposed to air [100]. 

The physical origin of this structural flexibility of the FeO overlayer is still unclear, the more so since no clear trend is observable in the sequence of lattice parameters of the coincidence structures. The FeO(l 11) phase forming up to coverages of 2-3 ML is clearly stabilized by the interactions with the Pt substrate since FeO is thermodynamically metastable with respect to the higher iron oxides [106,114], FeO has the rock salt structure and the (111) plane yields a polar surface with a high surface energy [115], which requires stabilization by internal reconstruction or external compensation. The structural relaxation observed in the form of the reduced Fe—O... 

The fourth and final crystal structure type common in binary semiconductors is the rock salt structure, named after NaCl but occurring in many divalent metal oxides, sulfides, selenides, and tellurides. It consists of two atom types forming separate face-centered cubic lattices. The trend from WZ or ZB structures to the rock salt structure takes place as covalent bonds become increasingly ionic [24]. 

The simplest of structures is the rock salt structure, depicted in Figure 2.2a. Magnesium oxide is considered to be the simplest oxide for a number of reasons. It is an ionic oxide with a 6 6 octahedral coordination and it has a very simple structure — the cubic NaCl structure. The structure is generally described as a cubic close packing (ABC-type packing) of oxygen atoms in the (111) direction forming octahedral cavities. This structure is exhibited by other alkaline earth metal oxides such as BaO, CaO, and monoxides of 3d transition metals as well as lanthanides and actinides such as TiO, NiO, EuO, and NpO. 

The discovery of high Tq superconductivity in La2-xMxCu04 (M = Ba, Sr) (Bednorz and Muller 1987) based on perovskite and rock-salt structures has led to an international effort in superconductivity research over the last decade. The principles that govern superconducting copper-oxide-based materials have enormous significance in the application of these oxides as potential catalysts... 

Cadmium is a member of Group 12 (Zn, Cd, Hg) of the Periodic Table, having a filled d shell of electrons 4valence state of +2. In rare instances the +1 oxidation state may be produced in the form of dimeric Cd2+2 species [59458-73-0], eg, as dark red melts of Cd° dissolved in molten cadmium halides or as diamagnetic yellow solids such as (Cd2)2+ (AlCl [79110-87-5] (2). The Cd + species is unstable in water or other donor solvents, immediately disproportionating to Cd2+ and Cd. In general, cadmium compounds exhibit properties similar to the corresponding zinc compounds. Compounds and properties are listed in Table 1. Cadmium(TT) [22537 48-0] tends to favor tetrahedral coordination in its compounds, particularly in solution as complexes, eg, tetraamminecadmium(II) [18373-05-2], Cd(NH3)2+4. However, solid-state cadmium-containing oxide or halide materials frequently exhibit octahedral coordination at the Cd2+ ion, eg, the rock-salt structure found for CdO. 

Cadmium Sulfide. CdS [1306-23-6] is dimorphic and exists in the sphalerite (cubic) and wurtzite (hexagonal) crystal structures (40). At very high pressures it may exist also as a rock-salt structure type. It is oxidized to the sulfate, basic sulfate, and eventually the oxide on heating in air to 700°C, especially in the presence of moisture (9). 

A. Oxides and Halides with Rock Salt Structure... 

IV. Oxides and Halides with the Rock Salt Structure Surface Structure, Reactivity, and Catalytic Activity... 

Magnesium oxide (MgO) is a good example of a catalyst with rock salt structure, that is, NaCl-type structure (Figure 2.8). 

Among the oxides and sulphides, only CdO adopts the octahedral rock salt structure found with group 2 element, although the solid is normally very deficient in oxygen and the electrons not used in bonding give rise to metallic properties. ZnO and ZnS are prototypes of the tetrahedrally coordinated wurtzite and zinc blende (or sphalerite) structures in fact, ZnS can adopt either structure, as can CdS and CdSe. HgO and HgS have chain structures with linear two-coordination of Hg. 

In transition metal compounds where the transition metal is stable in more than one oxidation state, by nonstoichiometry. For example, in CaO and FeO (both of which possess the rock salt structure) Schottky defects are thermally formed. Additionally, however, FeO (wiistite) exhibits mixed valence and, accordingly, has Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions and vacancies distributed over the cation sublattice. 

All of the insulator rock salt structures of Table VIII exhibit face-centered ordering of the second kind, which means that the 180° cation-anion-cation interactions arc stronger than the 90° interactions. Comparison of the calculated and observed N6el temperatures for the oxides was given in Table XIII. That 7V for a-MnS is greater than that for MnO follows qualitatively from the fact that the S2 ion has a greater tendency for covalent bonding than 02 . 

Nickel(II) oxide, a green solid with the rock salt structure, is formed when the hydroxide, carbonate, oxalate, or nitrate of nickel(II) is heated. It is insoluble in water but dissolves readily in acids. 

Beryllium oxide is covalent and has a zinc blende (wurtzite) structure, but all the others are ionic and have a rock salt structure (Figure 3). Attempts to predict the structures (using the ionic sizes and the radius ratio) only are partly successfijl. 

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