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Hard-sphere atomic volume in cubic lattices

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For identical touching atoms represented by hard spheres of radius r, a face-centered cubic lattice has conventional side aF​=22​r and four atoms per conventional cell. A body-centered cubic lattice has side aB​=4r/3​ and two atoms per conventional cell. Their primitive unit cell volumes are respectively
ΩF​=42​r3,ΩB​=33​32​r3.
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Each primitive cell contains one atom in the monatomic model, so its mass density is atomic mass divided by Ω. These are contact-geometry estimates; a fixed hard-sphere radius does not encode thermal expansion or phase-dependent electronic bonding.

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