Some articles on volume, unit cell, unit cell volume:
... This method defines the Avogadro constant as the ratio of the molar volume, Vm, to the atomic volume Vatom , where and n is the number of atoms per unit cell of volume Vcell ... The unit cell of silicon has a cubic packing arrangement of 8 atoms, and the unit cell volume may be measured by determining a single unit cell parameter, the length of one of the sides of the cube, a ... is 192.0155762(50) pm, a relative uncertainty of 2.8×10−8, corresponding to a unit cell volume of 1.60193304(13)×10−28 m3 ...
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