body-centred cubic structure

crystalline form

Also known as: bcc structure

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In steel: The base metal: iron
In the body-centred cubic (bcc) arrangement, there is an additional iron atom in the centre of each cube. In the face-centred cubic (fcc) arrangement, there is one additional iron atom at the centre of each of the six faces of the unit cube. It is significant that…
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In crystal: Structures of metals
Another possible arrangement is the body-centred cubic (bcc) lattice, in which each atom has eight neighbours arranged at the corners of a cube. Figure 3A shows the cesium chloride (CsCl) structure, which is a cubic arrangement. If all atoms in this structure are of the same species, it is a…
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In metallurgy: Metallic crystal structures
Examples of metals with the bcc structure are alpha iron, tungsten, chromium, and beta titanium.
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