– Cd 6 (Octahedral) : Cl 3 (on one side)
Cl with Cd in Oh holes of alternate layers
Polyhedra – layers of edge-sharing
(no Cl polyhedra)
The CdCl2 structure; the chloride layers have ccp stacking.
The cadmium-chloride structure adopted by MgCl2.
Related Structure: Cadmium Iodide (CdI2)