Explain how much portion of an atom located at (i) corner and (ii

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14. Explain how much portion of an atom located at (i) corner and (ii) body-centre of a cubic unit cell is part of its neighbouring unit cell.


(i) Primitive cubic unit cell has atoms only at its corner. Each atom at a corner is shared between eight adjacent unit cells . four unit cells in the same layer and four unit cells of the upper (or lower) layer Therefore only 1/8th of an atom (molecule or ion) actually belongs to a particular unit cell.
since each cubic unit cell has 8 atoms on its corners, the total number of atoms in one unit cell is 8×1/8 = 1 atom.
(ii) The atom at the body centre wholly belongs to the unit cell in which it is present. Thus in a body-centered cubic (bcc) unit cell:
(i) 8 corners×1/8 per corner atom =8×1/8 = 1 atom 
(ii) 1 body centre atom =1×1=1
   therefore total number of atom per unit cell =2 atom.

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