A particulate diagram shows four identical yellow spheres
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Problem
A particulate diagram shows four identical yellow spheres, each surrounded by exactly four identical white spheres in a tetrahedral arrangement. No other particles are present.
Which empirical formula best represents the substance depicted?
(a) XY2
(b) XY3
(c) XY
(d) XY4