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What is the coordination number of a simple cubic (SC) unit cell?
Correct Answer: A — 6
There are six nearest neighbouring atoms for every atom in a simple cubic (SC) unit cell, in other words, every atom in a SC unit cell is surrounded by 6 other atoms, thus coordination number of SC unit cell is is 6.