What type of unit cell exist in the crystal of NaCl
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The crystal of NaCl exists in a face-centered cubic (FCC) unit cell.
In this structure, both the sodium ions (Na⁺) and the chloride ions (Cl⁻) occupy positions that form FCC lattices. These two FCC lattices are interpenetrating and offset by half a unit cell edge along one of the axes.
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