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Ch.12 - Solids and Solid-State Materials

Chapter 12, Problem 18d

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

Diagram of a body centered cubic unit cell with a red sphere at the center and blue spheres at the corners.

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Hello. In this video, we are asked to identify the kind of packing for the following illustration were asked for the package. We're trying to identify the type of unit cell. Since our illustration shows that we have a cube, this is a type of cubic unit cell for all cubic unit cells. There are particles or atoms at each of the eight corners of the cubic unit cell. As shown in our illustration in our illustration, we also have one in the center of the cube. It's within the body of the cubic unit cell. So this is called a body centered cubic unit cell. Hope this was helpful. Thanks for watching.