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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