Magnesium oxide crystallises in the rock salt structure

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Condensed Matter Physics, Ch What holds a solid together, and where its atoms sit

Problem

Magnesium oxide crystallises in the rock salt structure, with

a=4.212\,\mathrm{\mathring{A}}

, just as sodium chloride does. Give its Bravais lattice and its basis, and find the nearest-neighbour magnesium-oxygen distance.

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