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

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

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The radius ratio of triangular planar radius is r+r-=

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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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The number of octahedral voids per lattice site in a lattice is ________. (Rounded off to the nearest integer)

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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 4-atom unit cell, where all positions are occupied by A atoms, the body-centred octahedral hole is occupied by B atoms of appropriate size. The void space per unit volume of such unit cell in percentage is

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The size of an octahedral void formed in a closest packed lattice as compared to tetrahedral void is

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A solid is formed and it has three types of atoms X,Y and Z, X forms a fcc lattice, Y atoms occupying all tetrahedral voids and Z atoms occupying half of octahedral voids. The formula of solid is

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In a compound, atoms of element 'B' form cubic close packing lattice and those of element 'A' occupy 14th of tetrahedral voids. 

The formula of the compound would be :

 

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A solid is formed by three elements X,Y and ZX atoms form a fcc lattice, Y atoms occupying all tetrahedral voids. Z atoms occupying half the octahedral voids. The formula of the solid is:

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

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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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A crystalline solid has three types of atoms X, Y and Z. X forms fcc lattice, Y at each octahedral voids and Z at each tetrahedral voids. If all the atoms along one body diagonal and from one face has been removed. What will be the formulae of compound?

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

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In a compound, atoms of element Y form CCP lattice and those of element X occupy 2/3rd of tetrahedral voids. The formula of the compound will be :-