What is the coordination number of body centre cube?

Question

What is the coordination number of body centre cube? (A) 8 (B) 6 (C) 4 (D) 12

Tardigrade Admin · Accepted Answer

The unit cell of body centred cube has one atom at each of the eight corners and one atom at the centre of the body. Hence, the atom at centre remains in contact with 8 corner atoms. Thus, the coordination number of bcc is 8.

Q. What is the coordination number of body centre cube?

$8$

$6$

$4$

$12$

The unit cell of body centred cube has one atom at each of the eight corners and one atom at the centre of the body. Hence, the atom at centre remains in contact with $8$ corner atoms. Thus, the coordination number of bcc is $8$ .