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The regular three dimensional arrangement of points in a crystal is known as crystal lattice and the smallest repeating pattern in the lattice is called unit cell. The unit cells are characterised by the edge lengths a, b, c and the angles between them `alpha, beta and gamma` respectively. Based on this, there are seven crystal systems. In a cubic unit cell:
`a=b=c and alpha = beta=gamma=90^(@)` The number of points in simple, body centred and face centred cubic cells are 1,2 and 4 respectively In both the hcp and ccp of spheres, the number of tetrahedral voids per sphere is two while the octahedral voids is one.
A double triangular void surrounded by three spheres above and three spheres below is called

A

triangular void

B

tetrahedral void

C

octahedral void

D

trigonal bipyramidal void

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The correct Answer is:
C
Void is octahedral in nature
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