Atomic packing factor:
A body-centered cubic (BCC) unit cell is composed of a cube with one atom at each of its corners and one atom at the center of the cube.
# of atoms = 2 per 1 unit cell
Volume of atoms in unit cell:
Edge length, a:
a = edge length
r = radius
Show that the atomic packing factor for BCC is 0.68.
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