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The unit cell present in ABAB... packing of atoms is

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a

face-centred cube

b

primitive cube

c

tetragonal

d

hexagonal

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

Every sphere has six nearest neighbors in the closest arrangement of spheres in two dimensions, which has hexagonal symmetry. An ABAB stacking of these planes is equivalent to hexagonal tight packing. Twelve atoms are each an atom's closest neighbors in hcp.

Hence option A is correct

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