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If ‘a’ is the length of the side of a cubic unit cell the distance between the body-centred atom and the corner atom in the cube will be

A

`(2)/sqrt(3)a`

B

`sqrt(3)/(2)a`

C

`(4)/sqrt(3)a`

D

`sqrt(3)/(4)a`

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