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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