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What percentage of an atom located at body-centre of a cubic unit cell is part of its neighbouring unit cell ?

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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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How many total constituent particles are present in simple cubic unit cell?
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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 percentage of unoccupied volume in simple cubic cell is
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A cubic solid is made of two elements P and Q. Atom of Q are at the corners of the cube and P at the body centre. What is the formula of the compound? What are the coordination numbers of P and Q?
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The correct order of the packing efficiency in different types of unit cells is
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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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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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Sodium metal crystallizes in a body centred cubic lattice with a unit cell edge of 4.29  . The radius of sodium atom is approximately: