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CCP is one of those abbreviations which you might find in an old materials science textbook with absolutely no explanation. The abbreviation used to be very common, although now it’s fallen out of...
FCC is one of the first abbreviations you’ll learn in materials science, but if you’re trying to learn materials science on your own, you may not know what FCC means. FCC stands for...
I remember being in high school and having to convert between all those different units of pressure. I think there are more units of pressure than any other measurable phenomenon! In this article,...
BCC stands for Body-Centered Cubic, which is a type of crystal structure. The BCC unit cell has an atom at each corner of a cube, and another atom at the center of the cube.
HCP stands for Hexagonal Close-Packed, which is a type of crystal structure. The HCP unit cell has an atom at each corner of a hexagonal prism, and three more inside the prism.
What Does SEM Stand For? Scanning Electron Microscope (Microscopy)
SEM is the abbreviation for Scanning Electron Microscope or Scanning Electron Microscopy. Scanning Electron Microscope of UNT's Materials Research Facility Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is...