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Stacking faults are most commonly seen in which kind of structure?
AClose-packed structures
BLiquid crystal phases
CGaseous clusters
DAmorphous glasses
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Close-packed structures
A local deviation in the layer sequence is a stacking fault, typical of close-packed layers.
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