Crystal Structures

How can a small unit cell encode the repeating three-dimensional structure of a crystal?

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How can a small unit cell encode the repeating three-dimensional structure of a crystal?

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Simple cubic, body-centered cubic, and face-centered cubic are ideal lattice-based structures with different effective atoms per conventional cell, coordination numbers, and packing relationships.