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What is meant by the term "coordination number"?
b. What is the coordination number of atoms:
i. in a cubic-packed structure?
ii. In a body-centreds structure?

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(a) Coordination number is the number of nearest neighbours of any constituent particle in crystal lattice.
(b) (i) 12 (ii) 8 .
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