Consider a parallelepiped with all edges being equal in length.There is an atom at each corner and one in the absolute center.This is a ________.
A)face-centered cubic cell
B)simple cubic cell
C)unit cell
D)body-centered cubic cell
E)hexagonal unit cell

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A body-centered cubic cell has atoms at each of the 8 corners of the unit cell, along with one atom in the center of the unit cell. Since all edges of the parallelepiped are equal in length, this matches the geometry of a body-centered cubic unit cell.

Consider a Parallelepiped with All Edges Being Equal in Length