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What is meant by the term coordination number in solids? What is the coordination number in a face centered cubic close packing structure? 

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The number of immediately neighbouring particles (spheres) to a given particle (sphere) is called the coordination number of the particle. The coordination number in a face centered cubic close packing structure is 12.
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