Which of the following unit cells has constituent particles occupying the corner positions only?

Body-centered cell

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Face centered cell

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End-centered cell

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Primitive cell

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Solution

The correct option is D Primitive cell
According to classification of unit cells, a primitive unit cell is one which has all constituent particles located at its corners. BCC has one particle present at the center including the corners. FCC has an individual cell shared between the faces of adjacent cells. End centered cells have cells present at centers of two opposite faces.

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In a simple cubic unit cell, how many corners are occupied by constituent particles?

Unit cell	Definition
(a) Primitive	(i) Contains one constituent at its body-centre other than corners
(b) End-centred	(ii) constituents only at the corners
(c) Face-centred	(iii) constituents at the centre of any two opposite faces other than corners
(d) Body- centred	(iv) constitutents at the centre of each face other than corners
	(v) constitutents only at the centre of cell

In a primitive unit cell the particles occupies

N a^{+}

C l^{-}

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