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Consider the solids: body-centred cubic (bcc), face-centred cubic (fcc), simple cube (sc) (or primitive), constructed of spheres of the same size. When they are arranged in incnreasing order of the percentage of free space in a unit cell, which order is correct?

A

fcc, bcc, sc

B

bcc, sc, fcc

C

sc, fcc, bcc

D

bcc, fcc, sc

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