VariousWords beta
Related Terms:
lattice constant
conventional cell
body centered
metaatom
nonacarbonate
crystal
polytypism
heptacarbonate
repeat
hexaphosphate
monopnictide
primitive cell
atom
parallelepiped
undecacarbonate
hexadecahydrate
pentacarbonate
monochalcogenide
octacarbonate
peierls stress
tricarbonate
decacarbonate
paracrystal
monoarsenide
Definitions:
Noun
unit cell
Definition: the smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal
Definition: The smallest repeating structure (parallelepiped) of atoms within a crystal, from which the structure of the complete crystal can be inferred.