The coordination number of an atom in a body centred cubic (bcc) lattice is

Answer: C

The body-centre atom touches the 8 corner atoms along the body diagonals, so each atom has 8 nearest neighbours. Simple cubic gives 6 and fcc/hcp give 12.

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