General Chemistry 10th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1-28505-137-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-28505-137-6

Chapter 11 - States of Matter; Liquids and Solids - Exercises - Page 460: 11.10

Answer

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Work Step by Step

We know that each of the corners of the cell have one atom and it is shared by a total of four unit cells. Thus $\frac{atoms}{unit \space cell}=4corners\times \frac{\frac{1}{4}}{1 corner}=1 atom$
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