Molecule viewer

• crystal structures
  • face centred cubic
  • body centred cubic
  • hexagonal close packed
• carbon structures
  • diamond
  • graphite
  • buckminster fullerine
• sodium chloride
• water
• benzene
• alkanes
  • methane
  • ethane
  • propane
  • butane
  • cyclohexane

Molecule and atomic lattice viewer

Hexagonal close packed

Note: Two different colours have been used for the atoms purely as an aid to visualising the HCP structure. This structure is adopted by Be, b-Ca, Cd,a-Co, Hf, Mg, Os, Re, Ru, Sc, b-Sr, Tc, Ti, Tl, Y, Zn, and a-Zr.