unit cell

English

Noun

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

smallest repeating structure in crystal

Finnish: alkeiskoppi
Galician: cela unidade

Italian: cella elementare f
Spanish: celda unidad

See also

conventional cell
primitive cell

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