MCQ
The crystal structure of pure silicon is like:
- ✓Diamond
- BGraphite
- CSilver
- DZinc
✓
Answer
Correct option: A.
Diamond
Silicon crystallizes in the same pattern as diamond, in a structure which Ashcroft and Mermin call "two interpenetrating face$-$centered cubic" primitive lattices.
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