Voids

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Voids: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Voids and Their Types, Octahedral and Tetrahedral Voids, Number and Locations of Tetrahedral and Octahedral Voids in FCC, Triangular Planar Voids & Cubical Voids etc.

Important Questions on Voids

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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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Column I (Type of crystal) Column II (Location of cations/anions) 
(A) NaCl  (p) Cations-fcc, Anions-all tetrahedral voids 
(B) ZnS (q) Anions-fcc, Cations-all tetrahedral voids
(C) CaF2 (r) Anions-fcc, Cations-all octahedral voids
(D) Na2O (s) Anions-fcc, Cations-alternate tetrahedral voids

 

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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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Octahedral voids are formed when the triangular voids in second layer exactly overlap with similar voids in the first layer.

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A unit cell of BaCl2 (fluorite structure) is made up of eight Ba2+ ions and four Cl- ions.

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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 CaF2 crystal, Ca2+ ions are present in fcc arrangement, calculate the number of F- ions in 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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In a crystalline solid x atoms occupy hcp and 14th of tetrahedral voids are occupied by y atoms. Then empirical formula of crystalline solid is:

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The number of tetrahedral voids per unit cell in the NaCl crystal is

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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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Ferric oxide crystallizes in a hexagonal close packing array of oxide ions with two out of every three octahedral holes occupied by ferric ions. Derive the formula of the ferric oxide. 

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If the radius of the octahedral void is r and the radius of the atoms in the close packing is R, derive the relationship between r and R

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How will you distinguish between the following pairs of terms:

Tetrahedral void and octahedral void.

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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