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WRITING in a contemporary (J.A.C.S., Feb. 1922), Richard M. Bozorth gives details of X-ray investigations into the crystalline structure of KCN, and corroborates the view expressed in a letter to this journal (NATURE, Aug. 11, 1921, vol. 107, p. 745) that the underlying structure is the face-centred cube. He gives 6.55 Å as the length of its edge, which agrees very well with the 6.54 Å furnished by my measurements. He goes further in that he assigns definite positions to the carbon and nitrogen atoms and questions the opinion, expressed by Langmuir, that these constituent atoms of the CN radicle have a common outer electron shell.
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COOPER, P. The X-ray Structure of Potassium Cyanide. Nature 110, 544 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110544a0
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