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lattices

  • Figure 1: Unit cells for face-centred and body-centred cubic lattices.
    In crystal: Structures of metals

    …found in a variety of crystal packing arrangements. The most common lattice structures for metals are those obtained by stacking the atomic spheres into the most compact arrangement. There are two such possible periodic arrangements. In each, the first layer has the atoms packed into a plane-triangular lattice in which…

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