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In a crystalline solid anions are arranged in cubic close packing. Cation are equally distributed between octahedral and tetrahedral voids. If all the octahedral voids are occupied, the formula for the solid is
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Consider the bcc unit cells of the solids and with the position of atoms as shown below. The radius of atom is twice that of atom The unit cell edge length is more in solid than in . What is the approximate packing efficiency in solid ?

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An element crystallises in a face–centred cubic (fcc) unit cell with cell edge a. The distance between the centres of two nearest octahedral voids in the crystal lattice is:

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The vacant space in bcc lattice unit cell 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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