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

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In this arrangement, each corner atom is shared between eight parallelepipeds, and each face-center atom is shared between two parallelepipeds. This is a characteristic of a face-centered cubic cell.

Consider a Parallelepiped with All Edges Being Equal in Length