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I've been wondering that myself and was looking into it. I'm pretty positive that it is face-centered cubic. We know that it is a ratio of 92.25-92.5% silver with the rest almost always being copper. Both these elements have very similar electrical properties and valence structures, seeing as they are in the same periodic column. And furthermore, both are face-centered cubic at lower temperatures, say at temperatures less than about 400 degrees C. Sure, the difference in atomic radii between the larger Ag and the smaller Cu atoms is (144pm-128pm) = 16pm on average, but that won't make much of a difference at all at such low concentrations of Cu. A little bit of geometry with spheres should prove this to you pretty quick.

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