BODY CENTERED CUBIC (BCC) STRUCTURE
Definition
A <BODY CENTERED CUBIC (BCC) STRUCTURE> is an <ArrangedIndividual> that is a crystalline structure that has atoms at each of the eight corners of a cube (like the cubic unit cell) plus one atom in the center of the cube. Each of the corner atoms is the corner of another cube so the corner atoms are shared among eight unit cells. It is said to have a coordination number of 8. The bcc unit cell consists of a net total of two atoms; one in the center and eight eighths from corners atoms as shown in the middle image below. The image below highlights a unit cell in a larger section of the lattice