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Draw the structure of NaCl and represent the coordination numbers of Na+ and Cl- ions in the diagram.

Important Questions on Solid state

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Iron crystallizes in several modifications. At about 911oC, the bcc 'α' form undergoes a transition to fcc 'γ' form. If the distance between two nearest neighbours is the same in the two forms at the transition temperature, what is the ratio of the density of iron in fcc form ρ2 to the iron in bcc form ρ1 at the transition temperature?
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A given metal crystallises out with a cubic structure having edge length of 361 pm. If there are four metal atoms in one unit cell, what is the radius of one atom?
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The packing efficiency of the face centered cubic (FCC), body centered cubic (BCC) and simple/primitive cubic (PC) lattices follows the order

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In a face centered cubic lattice atoms A are at the corner points and atoms B at the face centered points. If atom B is missing from one of the face centered points, the formula of the ionic compound is :
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Lithium has a bcc structure. Its density is 530 kg m-3 and its atomic mass is 6.94 g mol-1 . Calculated the edge length of a unit cell of Lithium metal. NA=6.02×1023 mol-1
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In a cubic close packed structure, fractional contributions of an atom at the corner and at the face in the unit cell are, respectively -
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Copper (Atomic mass = 63.5) crystallizes in a FCC lattice and has density 8.93g.cm-3. The radius of copper atom is closest to
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If a the length of the side of a cube, the distance between the body centered atom one corner atom in the cube will be
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At 100oC,  copper Cu has FCC unit cell structure with cell edge length of x  . What is the approximate density of Cu (in g cm-3 ) at this temperature?

Atomic Mass of Cu=63.55 u
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Consider the bcc unit cells of the solids 1 and 2 with the position of atoms as shown below. The radius of atom B  is twice that of atom A. The unit cell edge length is 50 % more in solid 2 than in 1 . What is the approximate packing efficiency in solid 2 ?

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Iron exhibits BCC structure at room temperature. Above 900°C, it transforms to FCC structure. The ratio of the density of iron at room temperature to that at 900°C is (assuming molar mass and atomic radii of iron remains constant with temperature)
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Element B forms ccp structure and A occupies half of the octahedral voids, while oxygen atoms occupy all the tetrahedral voids. The structure of bimetallic oxide is:
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A metal crystallizes in a face centred cubic structure. If the edge length of its unit cell is 'a', the closest approach between two atoms in the metallic crystal will be
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The ratio of number of atoms present in a simple cubic, body centered cubic and face centered cubic structure are, respectively :
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The percentage of unoccupied volume in simple cubic cell is
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How many total constituent particles are present in simple cubic unit cell?
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A mineral consists of a cubic close-packed structure formed by O2- ions where half the octahedral voids are occupied by Al3+ and one-eighth of the tetrahedral voids are occupied by Mn2+ . The chemical formula of the mineral is
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Sodium metal crystallizes in a body centred cubic lattice with a unit cell edge of 4.29  . The radius of sodium atom is approximately:
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If 'a' stands for the edge length of the cubic system: simple cubic, body-centred cubic and face-centred cubic, the ratio of radii of the spheres in these systems will be respectively