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, and Cubical Voids.

Important Questions on Voids

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Elements X and Y form a compound. The atoms of element X arrange in a cubic close packed lattice. The atoms of element Y occupy half of the tetrahedral voids and all the octahedral voids. The formula of the compound thus formed is [treat X and Y atoms as hard spheres]

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A compound is formed by two elements M and N. The element N forms ccp and M atom occupies 13 of the tetrahedral voids. The formula of the compound is

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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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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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A tetrahedral void in a crystal implies that

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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 number of tetrahedral voids per atom in a crystal lattice 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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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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In a solid XY, having the rock salt structure, Y atoms form the FCC arrangement and X atoms occupy all the octahedral voids. If the X atom at body centred octahedral void is missing, then the formula of the compound will be:

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In a face centred cubic arrangement of metallic atoms, what is the relative ratio of the sizes of tetrahedral and octahedral voids?