Density of Unit Cells

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Density of Unit Cells: Overview

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Important Questions on Density of Unit Cells

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Calcium crystallizes in a face centred cubic unit cell with a =0.560nm.  The density of the metal if it contains 0.1% schottky defects would be:

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Copper crystallises in a face-centred cubic lattice and has a density of  8.930gcm3 at 393 K. The radius of a copper atom is:
[Atomic mass ofCu=63.55u,NA=6.02×1023mol1]

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Iron has a body-centered cubic unit cell of cell edge 286.65 pm. The density of iron is 7.87 g cm-3. The Avogadro number is

(Atomic mass of iron =56 gmol1)

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X-rays diffraction studies show that copper crystallizes in an FCC unit cell with cell edge of  3.6885×108cm. In a separate experiment, copper is determined to have a density of   8 .92g/cm 3 , the atomic mass of copper would be:

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In face-centred cubic (FCC) and body centred cubic (BCC), whose unit cell lengths are 3.5 and 3.0 Å respectively, a metal crystallises into two cubic phases. What is the ratio of densities of FCC and BCC?

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A metallic element crystallises into lattice having a layering sequence of ABABAB. Any packing of sphere leaves out voids in the lattice. Determine what percentage by volume of this lattice is empty space.

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The density of mercury is 13.6 g ml-1. The approximate diameter of an atom of mercury assuming that each atom is occupying a cube of edge length equal to the diameter of the mercury atom is

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An atomic substance A of molar mass 12 g mol1 has a cubic crystal structure with edge length of 300 pm. The no. of atoms present in one unit cell of A is

(Nearest integer)

Given the density of A is 3.0 g m m-1 and NA=6.02×1023 mol-1

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The edge length of bcc type of unit cell of metal having molecular weight 75 g/molis 5 Ao. What is the radius of metal atom if its density is 2 g/cc?

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Find the number of atoms per unit cell if edge length is 300 pm, density= 3 g/cm3, molecular mass = 40 g ( nearest integer)

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The edge length of NaCl unit cell is 654 pm. What is the density of the unit cell?

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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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Cu metal crystallises in face centred cubic lattice with cell edge, a= 361.6 pm. What is the density of Cu crystal ?Atomic mass of Cu=63.5 amu, NA=6.023×1023

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Gold occurs as face centred cube and it has a density of 19.30 kg dm3. Calculate atomic radius of gold. (Molar mass of Au=197)

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An fcc lattice has lattice parameter a= 400 pm. Calculate the molar volume of the lattice including the empty space

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The density of nickel (face centred cubic cell) is 8.94 g/cm3 at 20°C. What is the radius of the atom? (Atomic mass of Ni=59)

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Vacant space in body centered cubic lattice unit cell is about

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Iron crystalizes in FCC with an edge length of 400pm. If it contains 0.1% Schottky defects, calculate its approximate density [AW of Fe=56 g/mol]

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Metallic iron crystallizes in BCC at room temperature and transforms to FCC structure at high temperature. Calculate the ratio of density of iron at low temperature to that of high temperature [MW and radius of iron atom remained constant]

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Atom X occupies the fcc lattice sites as well as alternate tetrahedral voids of the same lattice. The packing efficiency (in %) of the resultant solid is closest to