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(i) What is meant by the term ‘coordination number’?(ii) What is the coordination number of atoms:(a) in a cubic close-packed structure?(b) in a body-centred cubic structure?

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(i) Coordination number is the number of nearest neighbours of a particle.

(ii) 

(a) coordination number =12

(b) coordination number = 8



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