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General Chemistry Principles, Patterns, and Applications, 2011

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The Unit Cell<br />

There are seven fundamentally different kinds of unit cells, which differ in the relative lengths of the edges<br />

<strong>and</strong> the angles between them (Figure 12.4 "The <strong>General</strong> Features of the Seven Basic Unit Cells"). Each<br />

unit cell has six sides, <strong>and</strong> each side is a parallelogram. We focus primarily on the cubic unit cells, in<br />

which all sides have the same length <strong>and</strong> all angles are 90°, but the concepts that we introduce also apply<br />

to substances whose unit cells are not cubic.<br />

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