All sides are equal in length and all angles are right angles. There is an atom at each corner and one in the center. This is a simple cubic cell.

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The description matches a cubic unit cell, but not necessarily a simple cubic one. A simple cubic cell only has one atom at each corner, not one in the center. The correct cell with one atom in the center is called a body-centered cubic (BCC) cell.

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