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Ch.12 - Solids and Solid-State Materials

Chapter 12, Problem 18b

Identify each of the following kinds of packing: (b)

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Hello, everyone in this video, we're trying to identify the type of packing that's shown in this illustration here. So the different types of packing that we have is simple cubic, or we can have body centered or we can have face centered. Alright, so we can see from the structure that were given here that there's an atom at each corner of the unit cell, so the red ones and the purple ones. And because of this, this fits the exact definition of a simple cubic. So our final answer then, is that the type of packing that's shown below, and this structure here is going to be simple cubic. That's my final answer for this problem.