Constituent
- Name
- ZnO Zn oxide wurtzite
- Official name
- Zinc oxide
- Family
- covalent network solid
- Class
- tridimentional covalent network solid
- Compound type
- oxide-hydroxide
- Comments
- ZnO can be almost considered as an alkali salt (largely ionic bonding)
- Relevance
- main - major
- Arrangement
- single phase
- Mass fraction
- 1.0
- Mole fraction
- 1.0
- Formula
- $w-ZnO (or \beta ZnO$
- Chemical formula
- ZnO
- Elemental formula
- Zn O
- Isotope mixture type
- terrestrial abundance
- Class
- tridimensional covalent networks (11)
- Type
- metal homonuclear tridimensional networks (elemental) (11.02)
- Phase name
- w-ZnO, beta-ZnO
- Phase type
- crystalline
- Crystal system
- hexagonal
- Crystal class
- dihexagonal-pyramidal
- Crystal class symbol
- 6mm (C6v)
- Crystal spacegroup
- P6(3)mc
- Comments
- the bonding in ZnO is largely ionic (Zn^{2+}–O^{2−})
- Texture
- polycrystalline
- Molar mass
- 81.406 $g/mol$
- Density
- 5.1 $g/cm^3$
- Refringence type
- uniaxial
- Refringence sign
- positive
- Birefringence
- 0.016
- Refraction index $n_{\alpha}$
- 2.013
- Refraction index $n_{\beta}$
- 2.029
- Color
- white
- Diaphaneity
- translucent to subtranslucent
- Luster
- submetallic