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Crystals of common table salt tend to have 90° angles between their flat sides. What causes this?

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The regular arrangement of atoms within the crystal causes the regularity of shape
The chemical bonding between sodium and oxygen atoms
The spherical shape of sodium and chlorine atoms
The presence of impurities in the salt crystal structure

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The regular arrangement of atoms within the crystal causes the regularity of shape

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