Multiple choice

Which of the following sets of ‘crystal system type: number of space lattices - lattice type’ is not correctly matched?

  1. Cubic: 3 - face centred cubic

  2. Orthorhombic: 2 - body centred rectangular prism

  3. Tetragonal: 2 - body centred tetragonal prism

  4. Monoclinic: 2 - face centred parallelepiped

  5. Triclinic: 1 - triclinic parallelopiped
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Orthorhombic crystals have four space lattices with body centred rectangular prism arrangement.

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