Voids in crystal lattice

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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

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The distance between an octahedral and a tetrahedral void in pm in FCC lattice would be: 

(Consider edge length is 7 pm)

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

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In a compound, atoms of element Y form cubic close packing lattice and those of element X occupy23 times  of tetrahedral voids. The formula of the compound will be

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A solid compound XY has NaCl structure. If the radius of the cation is 100 pm, the radius of the anion Y- in pm will be

(Round of the answer up to four significant figures)

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

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In a carbon allotrope having FCC lattice, two atoms are at 0, 0, 0 and a8, a8, a8 coordinates. What is the ratio of C-C bond length distance to the edge length of the unit cell?

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 In a compound, oxide ions are arranged in cubic close packing arrangement. Cations A occupy 1/6 of the tetrahedral voids and cations B occupy 1/3 of the octahedral voids. The formula of the compound is
 

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

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The radius of Ag+ ion is 126 pm and I- ion is 216 pm. The co-ordination number of Ag+ ion is:-

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Which type of structure does RbCl have if ionic radii of Rb and IΘ respectively are 1.46 A°  and 2.16 A°:-

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

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

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An ionic crystal lattice has r+/r- radius ratio of 0.524. Its coordination number is

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The number of tetrahedral sites per sphere in ccp structure is,

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The number of octahedral sites per sphere in fcc structure is

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The ratio of close packed atoms to octahedral holes in hexagonal close packing is

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The ratio of close packed atoms to tetrahedral holes in cubic packing is

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The number of tetrahedral and octahedral holes in a hexagonal primitive unit cell are: 

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The range of radius ratio r+/r- for an octahedral arrangement of ions in an ionic solid is

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KCl crystallises in the same type of lattice as does NaCl. Given that, rNa+/rCl-=0.55 and rK+/rCl-=0.74.

Calculate the ratio of the side of the unit cell of KCI to that of NaCl.