What metals have the body centered cubic structure?
A very high percentage of the elements are metals. However, only a few types of structures occur for most elemental metals. This leads to the use of sphere packings to models metal structures. On this page, we give a brief discussion on metal structures. Namely, metals have closest packing (fcc and hcp) structures, the body centered cubic (bcc), simple cubic (sc) and complicated closest packing structures. We will only scratch the surface on the subject on metal structures, but the basic concepts presented here let you understand why metals behave they way they do (properties).
