Other cubic minerals Pyrite is far from the only mineral that creates cubic crystals. Halite, commonly recognized as table ...

In a sodium chloride crystal, the sodium and chlorine ions arrange themselves in a repeating pattern known as a lattice.

[Chase]’s crystal-growing efforts have shown up here before, when he turned humble table salt into beautiful cubic crystals. We find the whole crystal-growing process fascinating, and we’re ...

Silicon has the diamond cubic crystal structure with a lattice parameter of 0.543 nm. The nearest neighbor distance is 0.235 nm. The diamond cubic crystal structure has an fcc lattice with a basis of ...