body-centered
Adjective
Meaning
body-centered (not comparable)
Of a crystal lattice: having an atom at the centre of each unit cell and one at each vertex.
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Examples
According to Foucault, the rise of body-centered discourses necessarily involved a process of secularization.
At 310 °C, lanthanum changes to a face-centered cubic structure, and at 865 °C, it changes to a body-centered cubic structure.
At room temperature, protactinium crystallizes in body-centered tetragonal structure which can be regarded as distorted body-centered cubic lattice; this structure does not change upon compression up to 53 GPa.
Below 0.2% carbon, it takes on a ferrite BCC crystal form, but at higher carbon content it takes a body-centered tetragonal (BCT) structure.
Further heating to 922 °C transforms the metal into a body-centered cubic (bcc) phase.
Properties Physical Seaborgium is expected to be a solid under normal conditions and assume a body-centered cubic crystal structure, similar to its lighter congener tungsten.