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A metal crystallizes with a -lattice, the edge of whose unit cell is . The diameter of this metal atom would be
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In the face-centred unit cell, atoms are arranged at the corners and at centered of the face diagonal.
Let radius of metal atom =
So, the distance =
The distance and =
Using the Pythagoras theorem,
So, the diameter of this metal atom would be .
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