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The number of carbon atoms per unit eel I of diamond unit cell is:

A

8

B

6

C

1

D

4

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Diamond is like ZnS. In diamond cubic unit cell, there are eight corner atoms, six face centered atoms and four more atoms inside the strucn1 re. Number of atoms present in a diamond cubic cell
`8xx(1)/(8)xx6xx(1)/(2)xx4xx8`
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