Unit cell

Layer 2 — Chemistryin the crystallography subtree

Parallelepiped defined by a₁, a₂, a₃ that tiles space by translation. Six parameters (a,b,c,α,β,γ) with seven-crystal-system constraints; primitive (P), body (I), face (F), side (C,A,B) centrings give 14 Bravais types.

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