Editing Reciprocal lattice (section)

===Face-centered cubic (FCC) lattice===

The reciprocal lattice to an FCC lattice is the body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice, with a cube side of <math display="inline"> \frac{4\pi}{a}</math>.

Consider an FCC compound unit cell. Locate a primitive unit cell of the FCC; i.e., a unit cell with one lattice point. Now take one of the vertices of the primitive unit cell as the origin. Give the basis vectors of the real lattice. Then from the known formulae, you can calculate the basis vectors of the reciprocal lattice. These reciprocal lattice vectors of the FCC represent the basis vectors of a BCC real lattice. The basis vectors of a real BCC lattice and the reciprocal lattice of an FCC resemble each other in direction but not in magnitude.