Rhenium forms a series of solid oxides: Re2O7 (yellow), ReO3 (red), Re2O5 (blue), and ReO2 (brown).  One of them has a crystal structure with the following unit cell:

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  1. Rhenium forms a series of solid oxides: Re2O7 (yellow), ReO3 (red), Re2O5 (blue), and ReO2 (brown).  One of them has a crystal structure with the following unit cell:
  1. How many rhenium atoms (grey, smaller spheres) are there in a unit cell? Show your work. 

 

Rhenium atoms:  ____________

 

  1. How many oxygen atoms are there in a unit cell? Show your work.

Oxygen atoms:  ____________



  1. What is the color of the compound?  Show how you made that conclusion?
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