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Which has minimum per cent volume occupied by the spheres?

A

Simple cubic

B

Body-centred cubic

C

Hexagonal closest packed

D

Cubic closest packed

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The volume occupied by spheres in simple cubic unit cell is 52.3%, in bcc is 68.05% and in ccp and hcp is 74.06%.
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