Q123 · CSIR-NET Chemistry, December 2019

Paper: CSIR-NET December 2019 · Subject: Physical Chemistry · Chapter: Group Theory · Topic: Symmetry Elements Point Groups · Marks: 2 · Difficulty: Medium

A cube does not have the symmetry element

Answer

Answer (as printed): D

The options are missing from the source scan for this question, so there is nothing here for this letter to point at. The letter is what the book printed.

Explanation

A cube (O_h) has C₄ (through face centres), C₃ (body diagonals) and C₂ (edge midpoints) axes, but no six-fold axis.

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