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Cubic body centred

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  • 1. A crystal structure that consists of a cube-shaped unit cell with atoms located at the corners and in the center of the cube. In this structure, each atom is surrounded by eight nearest neighbors located at the corners of the cube. (https://www.corrosionpedia.com/definition/1593/body-centered-cubic-bcc). 2. A Body-Centered Cubic Crystal System is defined as a lattice structure where each lattice point is surrounded by eight nearest-neighbour points, with a lattice point at the body-center position. This type of lattice is also known as a bcc lattice in the cubic crystal system. (ScienceDirect, AI generated definition based on: Space Groups for Solid State Scientists (Third Edition), 2013).

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