A crystalline solid consists of atoms stacked up in a repeating lattice structure. Consider a crystal as shown in Figure P1.6a. The atoms reside at the corners of cubes of side L=0.200 nm . One piece of evidence for the regular arrangement ...

 6. A crystalline solid consists of atoms stacked up in a repeating lattice structure. Consider a crystal as shown in Figure P1.6a. The atoms reside at the corners of cubes of side L=0.200 nm . One piece of evidence for the regular arrangement of atoms comes from the flat surfaces along which a crystal separates, or cleaves, when it is broken. Suppose this crystal cleaves along a face diagonal as shown in Figure P1.6b. Calculate the spacing d between two adjacent atomic planes that separate when the crystal cleaves.