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Tungsten crystallizes in a body centred cubic unit cell. If the edge of the unit cell is 316.5 pm, what is the radius of the tungsten atom?

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a = 316.5 pm
For bcc structure, `r=(sqrt3)/(4)a=(sqrt3)/(4) xx 316.5` pm
= 317.04 pm
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