unit cell
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Noun edit
unit cell (plural unit cells)
- (crystallography) The smallest repeating structure (parallelepiped) of atoms within a crystal, from which the structure of the complete crystal can be inferred.
- 1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:
- The first task for a crystallographer is to establish the shape of the unit cell.
Translations edit
smallest repeating structure in crystal
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