Mercury is a poisonous metal that is used in thermometers. when mercury is at temperatures below its freezing point it has a simple cubic unit cell. how many atoms of hg are present in each unit cell?
The simplest cubic system is the simple cubic structure. he unit cell for the simple cubic structure contains one-eighth portions of eight corner atoms to make one complete atom, molecule or ion in each unit cell. Therefore, there is 1 atom of Hg present in the unit cell.
