Module 4
: Solid State Chemistry
Lecture 16 :
Lattices and Unit Cells
The cubic unit cell can be further categorized as simple cubic, face centered cubic and body centered cubic. The fourteen Bravais lattices are shown in fig 16.2
Figure 16.2 The 14 Bravais lattices
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