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Show that in a cubic close packed structure, eight tetrahedral voids are present per unit cell.

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Solution : cubicpackedstruturecontainsoneatomat eachcornerof anunitcellandatforcecentre of echunit cellEachunit cellconsistsof 8smallcubes.
Each smallleadto CREATIONOF atetrahedralvoidas SHOWNBELOW

sincethere are total8 SMALLERCUBES PRESENTAT oneunitcelleachcubeshasonetetrahedralvoidtotalnumberof tetrahedralvoid PRESENTIN eachunitcellis equaltoright
As weknown ccp struturehasatomsper unitcellthustotalnumberof tetrahedralvoidin oneccpunitcellequalto 8.


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