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Lab Report Experiment 5

The document discusses three common crystal structures - body-centered cubic (BCC), face-centered cubic (FCC), and hexagonal close-packed (HCP). It provides details on the unit cells and atomic arrangements of each structure. Data is presented comparing the volume of atoms in each structure's unit cell, the total unit cell volume, atomic packing factor, and packing efficiency. The HCP structure has the highest packing efficiency at 79.25%, followed by FCC at 65.04% and BCC at 68.39%.

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Lab Report Experiment 5

The document discusses three common crystal structures - body-centered cubic (BCC), face-centered cubic (FCC), and hexagonal close-packed (HCP). It provides details on the unit cells and atomic arrangements of each structure. Data is presented comparing the volume of atoms in each structure's unit cell, the total unit cell volume, atomic packing factor, and packing efficiency. The HCP structure has the highest packing efficiency at 79.25%, followed by FCC at 65.04% and BCC at 68.39%.

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Czarina Mae P.

Mantuano November 14, 2019


D1B Engchemlab

Laboratory Report Experiment 5

Introduction:

In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of the ordered arrangement of


atoms, ions or molecules in a crystalline material. Ordered structures occur from the intrinsic
nature of the constituent particles to form symmetric patterns that repeat along the principal
directions of three-dimensional space in matter.
Three relatively simple crystal structures are found for most of the common metals: face-
centered cubic, body-centered cubic and hexagonal closed pack. These three unit cells are
important for two reasons. First, a number of metals, ionic solids, and intermetallic
compounds crystallize in cubic unit cells. Second, it is relatively easy to do calculations with
these unit cells because the cell-edge lengths are all the same and the cell angles are all 90.
The body-centered cubic unit cell is the simplest repeating unit in a body-centered cubic
structure. Once again, there are eight identical particles on the eight corners of the unit cell.
However, this time there is a ninth identical particle in the center of the body of the unit cell.
It has one lattice point in the center of the unit cell in addition to the eight corner points.
It has a net total of 2 lattice points per unit cell (1⁄8 × 8 +1).
The face-centered cubic unit cell also starts with identical particles on the eight corners
of the cube. But this structure also contains the same particles in the centers of the six faces
of the unit cell, for a total of 14 identical lattice points. It is alternatively called cubic close-
packed.
It has lattice points on the faces of the cube, that each gives exactly one half
contribution, in addition to the corner lattice points, giving a total of 4 lattice points per unit cell
(1⁄8 × 8 from the corners plus 1⁄2 × 6 from the faces), each sphere in a cF lattice has
coordination number 12.

The hexagonal close packed (hcp) cubic unit cell refers to layers of spheres packed so
that spheres in alternating layers overlie one another. Hexagonal close packed is a slip
system, which is close-packed structure. Slip in hcp metals is much more limited than in body-
centered cubic and face-centered cubic crystal structures. Usually, hcp crystal structures
allow slip on the densely packed basal planes.
It has a coordination number of 12 and contains 6 atoms per unit cell. The face-centered
cubic (fcc) has a coordination number of 12 and contains 4 atoms per unit cell. The body-
centered cubic (bcc) has a coordination number of 8 and contains 2 atoms per unit cell.
Data:

Computation:
Structure Volume of atoms Volume of the Atomic packing Packing efficiency
in a cell unit cell factor

BCC 67560.15469 mm 98779.55218 mm 0.6839487849 mm 68.39%

FCC 135120.3094 mm 207751.1972 mm 0.650394853 mm 65.04%

HCP 202680.464 mm 255762.7116 mm 0.7924550953 mm 79.25%

Mean value of the diameter of the atom: 40.10704566 mm


Structure Sketches Coordination Number of atoms Measurement
Number in a cell

edge length, a:

BCC 8 2

edge length, a:

FCC 12 4

edge length, a:

HCP 12 6
Discussion:

Conclusion:

Therefore I conclude that

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