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A primitive unit cell is the smallest repeating unit in a crystal lattice that, when translated through the lattice vectors, fully recreates the entire lattice structure. It lacks any symmetry elements, containing only the minimum number of atoms needed to describe the lattice arrangement without redundancy.
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