alleryStart learning →In the ionic lattice of sodium chloride, each ion is bonded to how many neighbours?
ASix neighbours
BTwo neighbours
CFour neighbours
DEight neighbours
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Six neighbours
1. An ionic solid is a repeating three-dimensional arrangement rather than a set of pairs.
2. Each ion is bonded to all of the surrounding ions.
3. In the sodium chloride structure that number is six.
4. That is why no single pair can be picked out as a molecule.
_Source: OpenStax Chemistry 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 7 'Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry', sections 7.1-7.6_
Keep practising Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry
Browse all Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry questions for AP Chemistry, or explore more Chemistry topics.
Related questions
Complete the ionisation ruleMatch each term to its meaningWork the bonding numbersTrue or false: bondingIonic or covalent?An ionic formula such as Al2O3 does not tell you:For p-block elements forming cations, electrons are removed from which orbitals first?In a chlorine molecule, each chlorine atom ends up surrounded by how many electrons in tot