What is the crystal structure of caesium chloride?

Body centered cubic

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Face centered cubic

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Simple cubic

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Octahedral

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Solution

The correct option is B Simple cubic
The caesium chloride structure adopts a primitive cubic lattice with a two-atom basis, where both atoms have eightfold coordination. The chloride atoms lie upon the lattice points at the edges of the cube, while the caesium atoms lie in the holes in the center of the cubes.

Hence, the correct option is $C$

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