Voids in crystal lattice
Voids in crystal lattice: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Voids and Their Types, Octahedral and Tetrahedral Voids, Triangular Planar Voids & Cubical Voids etc.
Important Questions on Voids in crystal lattice
The distance between an octahedral and a tetrahedral void in in FCC lattice would be:
(Consider edge length is )

Column I (Type of crystal) | Column II (Location of cations/anions) |
(A) | (p) Cations-fcc, Anions-all tetrahedral voids |
(B) | (q) Anions-fcc, Cations-all tetrahedral voids |
(C) | (r) Anions-fcc, Cations-all octahedral voids |
(D) | (s) Anions-fcc, Cations-alternate tetrahedral voids |

A molecule have radius ratio of is more than 0.732. Which of the following void is presented in the molecule.

A molecule have radius ratio of is 0.200 . Which of the following void is presented in the molecule.

The radius ratio of triangular planar radius is

Right option for the number of tetrahedral and octahedral voids in hexagonal primitive unit cell are:

In a compound, atoms of element form cubic close packing lattice and those of element occupy of tetrahedral voids. The formula of the compound will be

A solid compound has structure. If the radius of the cation is , the radius of the anion in pm will be
(Round of the answer up to four significant figures)

The total number of tetrahedral voids in the face centred unit cell is

In a carbon allotrope having lattice, two atoms are at and coordinates. What is the ratio of bond length distance to the edge length of the unit cell?

In crystal, ions are present in fcc arrangement, calculate the number of ions in the unit cell.

In a compound, oxide ions are arranged in cubic close packing arrangement. Cations occupy of the tetrahedral voids and cations occupy of the octahedral voids. The formula of the compound is

For the structure given below the site marked as S is a :-

The radius of ion is and ion is . The co-ordination number of ion is:-

Which type of structure does have if ionic radii of and respectively are and :-

An ionic compound is expected to have a tetrahedral structure if lies in the range of

The total number of tetrahedral voids in the face-centred unit cell is _____.

The positions of ions in structure are:

In a solid having the structure, atoms occupy the every and atoms are in . If all the face-centred atoms along one of the axes are removed, then the resultant stoichiometry of the solid is-

The edge length of face centred cubic unit cell having rock salt structure is . If the radius of the cation is the radius of the anion is-
