Number of Atoms in A Unit Cell

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Number of Atoms in A Unit Cell: 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 etc.

Important Questions on Number of Atoms in A Unit Cell

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Silver crystallises in a fcc lattice. The edge length of its unit cell is   4.077× 10 8 cm  and its density is 10.5gcm3. The atomic mass of silver on the basis of this would be: (NA=6.02×1023 mol1)

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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

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

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In a Solid AB having the NaCl 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:

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In a compound, atoms of an element Y form CCP lattice and those of element X occupies 23rd of the tetrahedral voids. The formula of the compound can be

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In a mixed oxide of 'A' and 'B' 'A' occupies all the octahedral voids while 'B' occupies (2/3)rd the tetrahedral voids. The molecular formula of this oxide is ______

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In a cubic-close packed structure containing X,Y and Z atoms, if Z occupies all the face centres, $\mathrm{X}$ occupies all the corners and Y occupies the body centre of the cube, what is the formula of this compound?

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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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In chromium chloride CrCl3, Cl- ions have cubic close packed arrangement and Cr3+ ions are present in the octahedral holes. The fraction of the total number of holes occupied is

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A crystal made up of particles X, Y, and Z. X forms FCC packing. Y occupies all octahedral voids of X and Z occupies all tetrahedral voids of X. If all particles along one body diagonal are removed, then the formula of the crystal is

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A crystal is made of particles X, Y and Z. X forms FCC packing Y occupies all the octahedral voids of X and Z occupies all the tetrahedral voids of X. If all the particles along one body diagonal are removed then the formula of the crystal would be-

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The no. of particles present per BCC unit cell is :

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Unit cell of a metal has edge length of 288 pm and density of 7.86 g cm3. Determine the type of crystal lattice. [Atomic mass of metal = 56 g mol1

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The number of atoms per unit cell of body centred cube is: 

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The total number of body centred lattices possible among the 14 Bravais lattices is

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A cubic structure is formed where atoms of element X are occupied at corner of cube and also at face centers. Atoms of element Y are present at body center and at the edge centers. If all the atoms are removed along a plane passing through the middle of the cube (bisecting the four edges), the formula will become

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Which of the following type of cubic lattice has maximum number of atoms per unit cell

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Na and Mg crystallize in BCC and FCC type crystals respectively, then the number of atoms of Na and Mg Present in the unit cell of their respective crystal is:

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The cubic unit cell of Al (molar mass=27 g mol-1) has an edge length of 405 pm. Its density is 2.7 g cm-3. The cubic unit cell is

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The edge length of face centred cubic unit cell is 508 pm. If the radius of the cation is 110 pm, the radius of the anion is