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For a disordered face-centered cubic lattice, equal average scattering factors on the four sites give reflections only when are all even or all odd. Bragg's law also requires . With Fe K wavelength , the upper bound is . The allowed sums are , giving
The next allowed family, , has squared-index sum and cannot satisfy the diffraction condition for this wavelength. This list assumes the full geometrically accessible angular range, rather than an instrument-specific cutoff.

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