Lithium chloride crystallizes in a face-centered cubic unit cell with chloride ions occupying the lattice points and lithium ions occupying octahedral holes. How many chloride ions surround each lithium ion in LiCl?

6

Explanation:

The coordination number of a particular crystal structure arrangement is defined as the number of nearest neighbor atoms or ions surrounding an atom or ion.

We must note that in salts of the type MX, the coordination number of each ion must be equal. The structure of LiCl is built by placing each unit cell next to another such that ions residing in the corner, edge or face sites are shared between adjacent unit cells. The LiCl is in FCC arrangement.

Hence in LiCl, each Li+ ion is surrounded by 6 chloride ions.

the correct answer is b. a strong acid completely dissociates to its ions when dissolved in water. completely dissociates to and ions. a is incorrect because does not fully ionize to and ions and some remain as the compound . c and d are incorrect because, and do not fall into the category of bronsted lowry acids. a bronsted lowry acid is a proton donor and since both molecules do not have a proton to donate they are not bronsted lowry acids. likewise,   if we use the lewis acid definition, they cannot be acids. a lewis acid is an electron pair acceptor. both and have a complete octet so can not accept any electrons which disqualifies them as acids.