Calcium Fluoride

The structure of the mineral fluorite (calcium fluoride) may be viewed as a FCC lattice of cations (Z = 4), with the smaller anions occupying all of the Td holes (Z = 8). The Td cavities reside on a Simple Cubic lattice which is half the dimension of the CCP lattice.
Ca and F lattices in Fluorite, CaF2

(crossed stereo pair)
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