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unit cell

noun

unit cell

noun
1

Chemistry, Crystallography, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The smallest repeating structure (parallelepiped) of atoms within a crystal, from which the structure of the complete crystal can be inferred.

  • The first task for a crystallographer is to establish the shape of the unit cell.1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:
Related terms
conventional cell, primitive cell

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