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Octahedral voids in a fcc structure are located at :

A

corners of unit cell

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edge-centres of unit cell

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body-centre of unit cell

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face-centres of unit cell

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Solution

The correct option is B edge-centres of unit cell
Octahedral voids are located at the edge centres and body centre of a fcc unit cell.

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