APF of Common Structures
By similar procedures, the ideal atomic packing factors of all crystal structures can be found. The common ones are collected here as reference, rounded to the nearest hundredth.
- Simple cubic: 0.52
- Body-centered cubic: 0.68
- Hexagonal close-packed: 0.74
- Face-centered cubic: 0.74
- Diamond cubic: 0.34
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