Calculations for Standard Cubical Unit Lattice
Calculations for Standard Cubical Unit Lattice: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as Number of Effective Atoms in Simple Cubic Lattice, Number of Effective Atoms in Face-Centered Cubic Lattice, Number of Effective Atoms in Body-Centered Cubic Lattice, Density of a Cubic Crystal System, etc.
Important Questions on Calculations for Standard Cubical Unit Lattice
Silver crystallises with face-centred cubic unit cells and each side of the unit cell has a length of . Determine the radius of an atom of silver. (Assume that each face atom is touching the four corner atoms.)

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:

Silver crystallises in a fcc lattice. The edge length of its unit cell is and its density is The atomic mass of silver on the basis of this 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.

In face centred cubic (FCC) crystal lattice, edge length is 400 pm. The diameter of greatest sphere which can be fit into the interstitial void without distortion of lattice is

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

A substance crystallizes in a face centred cubic (FCC) lattice in which atoms occupy each corner of the cube and atoms occupy face centres of the cube composition of the substance is

In a Solid having the type structure, A atoms occupy the corners of the cubic unit cell. If all the face-centred atoms along one of the axes are removed, then the resultant stoichiometry of the solid is:

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

has bcc structure with edge length . The shortest inter ionic distance in between and is:

In a compound, atoms of an element form lattice and those of element occupies of the tetrahedral voids. The formula of the compound can be

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

Copper crystallizes in an FCC unit cell with cell edge of The density of copper is , Calculate the atomic mass of copper.

Assume that the atoms in a face-centered cubic unit cell are represented by spheres of radii . The volume per atom in this unit cell is given by

Elements and form a compound. The atoms of element arrange in a cubic close packed lattice. The atoms of element occupy half of the tetrahedral voids and all the octahedral voids. The formula of the compound thus formed is [treat and atoms as hard spheres]

The CORRECT order of number of atoms per unit cell in simple cubic (SC) unit cell, body centered cubic (BCC) unit cell and face centered cubic (FCC) unit cell is
