Q59 · CSIR-NET Chemistry, December 2011

Paper: CSIR-NET December 2011 · Subject: Inorganic Chemistry · Chapter: Main Group Elements · Topic: Ring Cage Cluster · Marks: 2 · Difficulty: Easy

A Sodalite cage in zeolites is

(a)a truncated tetrahedron

(b)an icosahedron

(c)a truncated octahedron

(d)a dodecahedron

Answer

Answer: C ✓ checked by 4AB · confidence high

Explanation

The sodalite (β) cage is a truncated octahedron with 24 T-atom vertices, 8 hexagonal and 6 square faces.

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