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The density of iridium is 22.4g/cm3. The unit cell of iridium is fcc. Calculate the radius of iridium atom. Molar mass of iridium is 192.2g/mol.(136pm).

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The density of a solid X is 1.5 g/cm3 at 250oC. If the atoms are assumed sphere of radius 2.0 A, the percentage of solid having empty space is
(Given atomic weight of X=60 g mol-1
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An element with molar mass 2.7×102 kg mol1 forms a cubic unit cell with edge length 405 pm. If its density is 2.7×103 kg m-3, the radius of the element is approximately .×10-12m (to the nearest integer)
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A metallic element has a cubic lattice. Each edge of the unit cell is 2 A. and the density of metal is 25 g cm3. The unit cell in 200 g of metal are
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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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The ratio of packing efficiency in FCC, BCC and simple cubic structure respectively, with respect to that of FCC structures is
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A diatomic molecule X2 has a body-centred cubic (bcc) structure with a cell edge of 300 pm. The density of the molecule is 6.17 gcm-3. The number of molecules present in 200 g of X2 is :
(Avogadro constant NA=6×1023mol-1)
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An element has a body centered cubic bcc structure with a cell edge of 288 pm. The density of the element is 7.2 g /cm3. How many atoms are present in 208 g of the element?
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The percentage of unoccupied volume in simple cubic cell is
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The number of atoms in 2.4 g of body centred cubic crystal with edge length 200 pm is (density =10 g cm-3, NA=6×1023 atoms mol-1)
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How many number of unit cells are present in 100 g of an element with FCC crystal having density 10 g/cm3 and edge length 100 pm?
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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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Calculate the number of unit cells in 38.6 g of noble metal having density 19.3 g cm-3 and volume of one unit cell is 6.18×10-23 cm3?
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The vacant space in bcc lattice unit cell is:

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A metal crystallizes in two phases, one as fcc and another as bcc with unit cell edge lengths of 3.5 A° and 3.0 A°, respectively. The ratio of density of fcc and bcc phases approximately is
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The unit cell of copper corresponds to a face centered cube of edge length 3.596 Å with one copper atom at each lattice point. The calculated density of copper in kg/m3 is ___ . [Molar mass of Cu:63.54 g; Avogadro Number =6.022×1023 J]
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If same type of atoms are packed in hexagonal close packing and cubic close packing separately, then
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The correct order of the packing efficiency in different types of unit cells is
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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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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