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The ionic lattice is modeled as an assembly of hard elastic spheres which are compressed together by the mutual attraction of the electrostatic charges on the ions. They achieve the observed equilibrium distance apart due to a balancing short range repulsion.
More here :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%E2%80%93Land%C3%A9_equation
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