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| The Structure of Solids | |||||||||||||||
| The
Structure of Metals
· In
an Elemental Metal, Atoms of equal size behave as hard spheres in close
packed structures.
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three-dimensional structure is formed by stacking Close Packed Planes.
Two distinct stacking sequences are possible:
......ABCABCABC..... which gives a Face Centered Cubic crystal structure, and ......ABABABABA..... which gives a Hexagonal Close Packed crystal structure |
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