For identical touching atoms represented by hard spheres of radius , a face-centered cubic lattice has conventional side and four atoms per conventional cell. A body-centered cubic lattice has side and two atoms per conventional cell. Their primitive unit cell volumes are respectivelyEach primitive cell contains one atom in the monatomic model, so its mass density is atomic mass divided by . These are contact-geometry estimates; a fixed hard-sphere radius does not encode thermal expansion or phase-dependent electronic bonding.
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