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    The document discusses crystal structures and how their packing arrangements affect material properties. It describes the three variants of cubic crystal structures: simple cube, body centered cube, and face centered cube. The number of atoms per unit cell depends on the packing structure, with body centered cube containing 2 atoms and face centered cube containing 4 atoms. Knowing the crystal structure allows determining a material's theoretical density by calculating the number of atoms per unit cell, atomic mass, unit cell volume, and Avogadro's number. As an example, it calculates iron's density based on its body centered cubic structure.

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    The document discusses crystal structures and how their packing arrangements affect material properties. It describes the three variants of cubic crystal structures: simple cube, body centered cube, and face centered cube. The number of atoms per unit cell depends on the packing structure, with body centered cube containing 2 atoms and face centered cube containing 4 atoms. Knowing the crystal structure allows determining a material's theoretical density by calculating the number of atoms per unit cell, atomic mass, unit cell volume, and Avogadro's number. As an example, it calculates iron's density based on its body centered cubic structure.

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    The document discusses crystal structures and how their packing arrangements affect material properties. It describes the three variants of cubic crystal structures: simple cube, body centered cube, and face centered cube. The number of atoms per unit cell depends on the packing structure, with body centered cube containing 2 atoms and face centered cube containing 4 atoms. Knowing the crystal structure allows determining a material's theoretical density by calculating the number of atoms per unit cell, atomic mass, unit cell volume, and Avogadro's number. As an example, it calculates iron's density based on its body centered cubic structure.

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    Module3:
    Lecture10:MaterialProperties:TheRoleofCrystalStructure


    MoreaboutCrystalStructures

    Note that each of the seven crystal systems that we have discussed may have several variants in
    terms packing of atoms inside each geometrical configuration. For example, the cubic crystal system
    canhavethreepackingvariationsasshownbelow:

    SimpleCube BodyCentredCube FaceCentredCube




    ThreevariantsoftheCubicSystem

    Thenumberofatomsperunitcelldependsonthetypeofpacking.Forexample,theunitcellofsimple
    cubic structure contains 8x1/8 = I atom per cell, whereas the BCC contains 8x1/8 +1 = 2 atoms per
    unitcellandtheFCCcontains8x1/8+6x1/2=4atoms.

    Knowingalltheseparametersyoucandeterminethetheoreticaldensityofamaterialwhich is defined
    as:

    Density=[(numberofatoms/unitcell)(atomicmass)]/[(Volumeofunitcell)(AvogadrosNumber)]

    Forexample,IronhasBCCcells,
    Hence,no.ofatomsperunitcell=2,atomicmass=55.84g/mol,Volumeofunitcell=a3=(2.866e
    8)3=23.54e24
    Hence,itsdensityshouldbe(2x55.84)/(23.54e24)(6.02e23)=7.88g/cc

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