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The radius of copper atom is 128 pm. It it crystallises in face centred cubic lattice (fcc), what will be the length the edge of the unit cell ?

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For face centred cubic crstal
Edge length (a) = `2sqrt2r=(1.4142)xx(128"pm")="362 pm"`
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