Density of Unit Cells
Density of Unit Cells: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Density of a Cubic Crystal System
Important Questions on Density of Unit Cells
Calcium crystallizes in a face centred cubic unit cell with a The density of the metal if it contains 0.1% schottky defects would be:

Copper crystallises in a face-centred cubic lattice and has a density of at The radius of a copper atom is:
[Atomic mass of

Iron has a body-centered cubic unit cell of cell edge . The density of iron is . The Avogadro number is
(Atomic mass of iron )

X-rays diffraction studies show that copper crystallizes in an FCC unit cell with cell edge of In a separate experiment, copper is determined to have a density of , the atomic mass of copper would be:

In face-centred cubic and body centred cubic whose unit cell lengths are and respectively, a metal crystallises into two cubic phases. What is the ratio of densities of and

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

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

An atomic substance A of molar mass has a cubic crystal structure with edge length of . The no. of atoms present in one unit cell of A is
(Nearest integer)
Given the density of A is and

The edge length of bcc type of unit cell of metal having molecular weight is . What is the radius of metal atom if its density is ?

Find the number of atoms per unit cell if edge length is , density, molecular mass ( nearest integer)

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

The density of iridium is . The unit cell of iridium is fcc. Calculate the radius of iridium atom. Molar mass of iridium is .

metal crystallises in face centred cubic lattice with cell edge, . What is the density of crystal ?

Gold occurs as face centred cube and it has a density of Calculate atomic radius of gold. (Molar mass of )

An fcc lattice has lattice parameter . Calculate the molar volume of the lattice including the empty space

The density of nickel (face centred cubic cell) is What is the radius of the atom? (Atomic mass of )

Vacant space in body centered cubic lattice unit cell is about

Iron crystalizes in with an edge length of . If it contains Schottky defects, calculate its approximate density [ of ]

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

Atom 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
