Platinum crystallizes in a face-centered cubic $(FCC)$ crystal with a unit cell edge length $a$. The distance between nearest neighbour atoms is

  • A
    $a$
  • B
    $a \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$
  • C
    $a \frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}$
  • D
    $a \frac{\sqrt{2}}{4}$

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