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portion of the structure of a body-centered cubic metal
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body-centered cubic space lattice
Atoms
are located at the lattice points in a body-centered cubic metal
Atoms
in a body-centered cubic metal have a coordination number of eight
A
body-centered cubic unit cell is a cube with lattice points at the corners
and in the center of the cube
One
atom is located at the center of the unit cell and one-eighth of an atom
is located inside the unit cell at each corner giving a total of two atoms
per unit cell
The body diagonal of the cell, d, is four times
R, the radius of the atoms in the unit cell
d = 4/R
a, unit cell edge
a, unit cell edge
a, unit cell edge
d, body diagonal
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by: Journal of Chemical Education Software
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