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What is the number of tetrahedral voids in FCC Unit cell?


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Take a look at the figure above. Do you see the tetrahedron?

We can have such tetrahedrons for every small cube that you can see inside the bigger one.

And you know that there are 8 smaller cubes. Hence there will be 8 tetrahedral voids totally.


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