Calculations Involving Unit Cell Dimensions

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Calculations Involving Unit Cell Dimensions: Overview

This topic covers the concept of Density of a Cubic Crystal System.

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Calcium crystallizes in a face centred cubic unit cell with a =0.560nm.  The density of the metal if it contains 0.1% schottky defects would be:

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Copper crystallises in a face-centred cubic lattice and has a density of  8.930gcm3 at 393 K. The radius of a copper atom is:
[Atomic mass ofCu=63.55u,NA=6.02×1023mol1]

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Iron has a body-centered cubic unit cell of cell edge 286.65 pm. The density of iron is 7.87 g cm-3. The Avogadro number is

(Atomic mass of iron =56 gmol1)

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X-rays diffraction studies show that copper crystallizes in an FCC unit cell with cell edge of  3.6885×108cm. In a separate experiment, copper is determined to have a density of   8 .92g/cm 3 , the atomic mass of copper would be:

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In face-centred cubic (FCC) and body centred cubic (BCC), whose unit cell lengths are 3.5 and 3.0 Å respectively, a metal crystallises into two cubic phases. What is the ratio of densities of FCC and BCC?

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A unit cell of sodium chloride has four formula units with an edge length of the unit cell 0.564 nm. What is the density of sodium chloride?

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A compound AB has rock salt type structure. The formula weight of AB is 6.023 Y amu, and the closest AB distance is Y 1 3 nm, where Y is an arbitrary number. The density of lattice is

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The density of mercury is 13.6 g ml-1. The approximate diameter of an atom of mercury assuming that each atom is occupying a cube of edge length equal to the diameter of the mercury atom is

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Copper crystallizes in an FCC unit cell with cell edge of  3.608×108cm. The density of copper is  8.92 g/cm3, Calculate the atomic mass of copper.

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A metal can be crystallized in both BCC and FCC unit cells whose edge lengths are 2 pm and 4 pm respectively. Then ratio of densities of FCC and BCC unit cells is

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A crystalline solid AB adopts sodium chloride type structure with edge length of the unit cell as 745 pm and formula mass of 74.5 a.m.u. The density of the crystalline compound is

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An element forms ccp lattice with a cell edge length of 400 pm. The density of the element is 10 g cm-3. The atoms mass of the element will be [Take NA=6.02×1023]

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The density of iron crystal is 8.54 g cm3. If the edge length of unit cell is 2.8 Å and atomic mass is 56 g mol1, find the number of atoms in the unit cell. (Given: Avogadro’s number = 6.022 × 1023, 1 Å = 1 × 108 cm)

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A metal crystallises into two cubic phases fcc and bcc whose unit lengths are 3.5 and 3.0 A°, respectively, the ratio of densities of fcc and bcc is:-
 

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A solid has a density of 9×103 kg m-3 forms face-centred cubic crystals of edge length 2002 pm. What is the molar mass of the solid? (Avogadro's constant 6×1023 mol-1)

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At 100°C, copper Cu has FCC unit cell structure with a cell edge length of x A. What is the approximate density of Cu (in g cm-3) at this temperature? (Atomic mass of Cu=63.55 u)

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The number of unit cells in 100 g of FCC crystal with density 10 g cm-3 and cell edge of 200 pm, is
 

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The number of atoms in 100 g of an FCC crystal with density d=10 g/cm3 and cell edge equal to 100 pm is equal to:

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Sodium crystallises in a BCC arrangement with the interfacial separation between the atoms at the edge 53 pm. The density of the solid is

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Iron exhibits BCC structure at room temperature. Above 900°C, it transforms to FCC structure. The ratio of density of iron at room temperature to that at 900°C (assuming molar mass and atomic radius of iron remains constant with temperature) is