The carbon-carbon bond length in diamond is 154.45 pm. If diamond were considered to be a close-packed

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The carbon-carbon bond length in diamond is 154.45 pm. If diamond were considered to be a close-packed structure of hard spheres with radii equal to half the bond length, what would be its expected density? The diamond lattice is face-centred cubic and its actual density is 3.516 g cm-1, Can you explain the discrepancy?

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