Calculations for Standard Cubical Unit Lattice

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Calculations for Standard Cubical Unit Lattice: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Density of a Cubic Crystal System, Coordination Number, Relation between Edge Length and Radius of a Constituting Atom for a Simple Cubic Structure & Effect of Temperature and Pressure on Coordination Number etc.

Important Questions on Calculations for Standard Cubical Unit Lattice

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Silver crystallises with face-centred cubic unit cells and each side of the unit cell has a length of 409 pm. Determine the radius of an atom of silver. (Assume that each face atom is touching the four corner atoms.)

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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 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 coordination number of a metal crystallizing in a hexagonal close-packed structure is:

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CsBr has bcc structure with edge length 4.3 Å . The shortest inter ionic distance in between Cs+ and Br is:

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Atoms of metals x, y and z form face-centred cubic (fcc) unit cell of edge length Lx, body-centred cubic (bcc) unit cell of edge length Ly, and simple cubic unit cell of edge length Lz, respectively. If rz=32ry;ry=83rx;Mz=32My and Mz=3Mx, then the correct statement(s) is(are)

[Given: Mx,My, and Mz are molar masses of metals x, y, and z, respectively. rx,ry, and rz are atomic radii of metals x,y, and z, respectively.]

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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

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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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What is the radius of sodium atom if it crystallizes in bcc structure with the cell edge of 400 pm ?

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A unit cell of sodium chloride has four formula units. The edge of length of the unit cell is 0.564 nm. What is the density of sodium chloride. Atomic Mass of Na=23,Cl=35.5

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Al (atomic weight 26.98) crystallizes in the cubic system with a = 4.05 Å. Its density is 2.7 g per cm3. Determine the cell type. Calculate the radius of Al atom.

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If the radius of a metal atom is 2.00 A and its crystal structure in cubic close packed (fcc lattice), what is the volume (in cm3 ) of one unit cell?

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Copper crystallises in a structure of face centerd cubic unit cell. The atomic radius of copper is 1.28 A. What is axial length on an edge of copper.

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Zinc selenide(ZnSe) crystallizes in a face-centred cubic unit cell and has a density of 5.267 g/cc. Calculate the edge length of the unit cell.

Give the answer as the nearest integer.