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Do all the metals possess a close-packed struture ? Name the different structures exhibited and give their packing fractions.

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Non, metals with hep and cop arrangement have close packed structure with packing fraction=0.74 whereas metals with be arrangements do not have close packed structure as packing fraction = 0.68
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