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Zinc blende 11: a polyhedral representation of the bulk structure

This structure is equivalent to the one on the previous page but on a larger scale. On this scale it is possible to see that there is an ABC pattern in the layers of tetrahedra and no unique axis. This is analogous to the cubic close-packed system on which the lattice is based.

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