Other cubic minerals Pyrite is far from the only mineral that creates cubic crystals. Halite, commonly recognized as table salt (NaCl), often forms transparent, cube-shaped crystals due to the ...

In a sodium chloride crystal, the sodium and chlorine ions arrange themselves in a repeating pattern known as a lattice.

It melts at 1410 C. The electronic configuration of the silicon atom is: (Ne)(3s) 2 (3p) 2, and the atomic radius is 0.132 nm. Silicon has the diamond cubic crystal structure with a lattice parameter ...

It has a melting temperature of 660 C. The electronic configuration of Aluminum is (Ne)(3s) 2 (3p) 1, and it has an atomic radius of 0.143 nm. At room temperature Aluminum has the face-centered-cubic ...