Structure: Salt

Chemical Formula: NaCl

Description: Common salt is sodium chloride. In salt crystals the sodium and chlorine atoms pack together in a face centered cubic arrangement with each sodium atom surrounded by 6 chlorine atoms and vice versa. In this painting the sodium atoms are represented by the smaller gold spheres and and the chlorine atoms by the larger brown spheres.

Colour: brown & gold

Approx. size: h51 x w61 x d1.5 cm

Price: £40