Calculation of Density of Unit Cell

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Calculation of Density of Unit Cell: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Density of a Cubic Crystal System etc.

Important Questions on Calculation of Density of Unit Cell

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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 unit cell of sodium chloride has four formula units with an edge length of the unit cell 0.564 nm. What is the density of sodium chloride?

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A compound AB has rock salt type structure. The formula weight of AB is 6.023 Y amu, and the closest AB distance is Y 1 3 nm, where Y is an arbitrary number. The density of lattice is

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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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Copper crystallizes in an FCC unit cell with cell edge of  3.608×108cm. The density of copper is  8.92 g/cm3, Calculate the atomic mass of copper.

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Ice crystallises in a hexagonal lattice. At the low temperature at which the structure was determined, the lattice constants were a=4.53 Å and c=7.41 Å. How many H2O molecules are contained in a unit cell? The density of ice is 0.92 g/cc at 0 °C. A unit cell of H2O is shown below:

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Iron exhibits BCC-structure at room temperature. Above 500°C, it transforms to FCC-structure. Find the ratio of the density of iron at room temperature to that at 500°C. (Assume the atomic radii and the molar mass of iron remain constant even with variation in temperature)

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If each edge of a cubic unit cell of an element having atomic mass 120 and density 6.25 g.cc-1 measures 400 pm, then the crystal lattice is

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An unknown metal is found to have a density of 10.2 g/cc at 25°C. It is found to crystallize in a body-centered cubic lattice with a unit cell edge length of 3.147 Å. Calculate the molar mass of the metal in grams.

Give your answer as the nearest integer.

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The density of iron crystal is 8.54 g cm3. If the edge length of unit cell is 2.8 Å and atomic mass is 56 g mol1, find the number of atoms in the unit cell. (Given: Avogadro’s number = 6.022 × 1023, 1 Å = 1 × 108 cm)

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An element with atomic mass 107.9u crystallizes in a FCC cubic lattice with edge length of 408.6 pm. Calculate the density of the metal in a×103 kgm-3.Thus, calculate the value of 'a'.
(NA=6.022 × 1023)

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Lithium metal has a BCC lattice structure with edge length of unit cell is 352 pm. Calculate density of the metal in gcm-3. (ALi=7 gmol-1

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Calcium metal crystallizes in a FCC cubic lattice with edge length of 0.556 nm. Calculate the density of the metal in kgm-3.

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A metal crystallises into two cubic phases fcc and bcc whose unit lengths are 3.5 and 3.0 A°, respectively, the ratio of densities of fcc and bcc is:-
 

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A solid has a density of 9×103 kg m-3 forms face-centred cubic crystals of edge length 2002 pm. What is the molar mass of the solid? (Avogadro's constant 6×1023 mol-1)

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At 100°C, copper Cu has FCC unit cell structure with a cell edge length of x A. What is the approximate density of Cu (in g cm-3) at this temperature? (Atomic mass of Cu=63.55 u)