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The density of copper metal is 8.95 g cm -3 . If the radius of copper atom is 127.8 pm, is the copper unit cell a simple cubic, a body-centred cubic or a face-centred cubic structure? (Given: At. mass of Cu=63.54 g mol -1 and NA = 6.022 × 1023 mol -1)

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Given, Radius (r) = 127.8 pm

Thus copper has fcc structure.

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