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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

Percentages of free space in cubic close packed structure and in body centered packed structure are respectively

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12 Years agoGrade 12
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11 Years ago
Packing efficiency of CCP and BCC structures are 74% and 68% respectively, so the % of free space in CCP and BCC are 26% and 32% respectively
percentage of free space is given by =100-packing efficiency