Cubic Crystal System

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.The cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube. This is one of the most common and simplest shapes found in crystals and minerals. There are three main varieties of these crystals, called "simple cubic", "body-centered cubic" (BCC), and "face-centered cubic" (FCC), plus a number of other variants listed below. Note that although the unit cell in these crystals is conventionally taken to be a cube, the primitive unit cell often is not. This is related to the fact that in most cubic crystal systems, there is more than one atom per cubic unit cell.

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