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Packing fraction of $F C C$

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FCC Stands for Face Centred Cubic. It is a type of atomic arrangement and is relatively "tightly" packed (atomic packing factor $= 0.74$ ). FCC is formally defined as a cubic lattice with the face positions fully equivalent to each of the eight corners.

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