The face centered cubic (FCC) unit cell begins with a totally different layer, one that is packed much more efficiently. This figure shows the basic layer that will be repeated throughout the entire ...

At room temperature it is body-centered cubic, between 912 and 1394 C if is face- centered cubic, and between 1394 and its melting point at 1538 C it returns to body-centered cubic. Low carbon steel ...

The simple cubic unit cell is delineated by eight atoms, which mark the actual cube. These are corner atoms, so each one only contributes one eighth of an atom to the unit cell, thus giving us only ...

Spinel, MgAl 2 O 4 (download cif), is a rare gemstone that was used to imitate rubies. The structure has face-centered cubic symmetry, and is a little heavy to understand. The general formula is AB 2 ...