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Given information

An oxide of titanium crystallizes with the unit cell shown here (titanium = gray; oxygen = red).

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

To find the formula of the titanium oxide from the crystal structure shown here in this image:

Titanium has a body-centered cubic structure.

Hence atoms are there at the corners of the cube or unit cell.

And atom at the center of the cube.

Effective Number of atoms per unit cell:

 

Hence there are two per unit cell.

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