(of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each unit cell as well as at the corners
Compare face-centred
Examples of 'body-centred' in a sentence
body-centred
Two major body-centred cubic (bcc) phases were detected in accordance with the feedstock.
Martin Löbel, Thomas Lindner, Thomas Lampke 2018, 'Enhanced Wear Behaviour of Spark Plasma Sintered AlCoCrFeNiTi High-Entropy Alloy Composites',Materialshttps://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/11/11/2225. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy shows uniform distribution of all elements and electron diffraction patterns reveals unvarying body-centred cubic crystalline structure.
Matheus A. Tunes, Vladimir M. Vishnyakov 2019, 'Microstructural origins of the high mechanical damage tolerance of NbTaMoW refractoryhigh-entropy alloy thin films', Materials & Designhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127519301297. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)