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Body Centred Cubic About 15% of elements crystallize with a body centred cubic structure.  e.g. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Iron, Tungsten ...
| Volume of conventional cell | a3 | | Lattice points per cell | 2 | | Volume of primitive cell | 1/2a3 | | Lattice points per unit volume | 2/a3 | | Number of nearest neighbours | 8 | | Nearest neighbour distance | 31/2a/2 | | Number of second neighbours | 6 | | Second neighbour distance | a | | Packing fraction | 1/8π31/2 |
See also: Crystal, Face Centred Cubic, Hexagonal Close Packed, Simple Cubic, Unit Cell.
  
Subjects:- Chemistry
- Physics
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