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Statement: In $ZnS$ (zinc blende) structure, the co-ordination number of each ion is $4$ .

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Zinc blende is the name given to the mineral $Z n S$ . It has a cubic close packed (face-centred) array of $S$ and the $Z n (I I)$ sits in tetrahedral sites (half occupied) in the lattice, giving a unit cell with $8$ $Z n$ ions and $16$ $S$ ions.

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