Calculations Involving Unit Cell Dimensions
Calculations Involving Unit Cell Dimensions: Overview
This topic covers the concept of Density of a Cubic Crystal System.
Important Questions on Calculations Involving Unit Cell Dimensions
Calcium crystallizes in a face centred cubic unit cell with a The density of the metal if it contains 0.1% schottky defects would be:

Copper crystallises in a face-centred cubic lattice and has a density of at The radius of a copper atom is:
[Atomic mass of

Iron has a body-centered cubic unit cell of cell edge . The density of iron is . The Avogadro number is
(Atomic mass of iron )

X-rays diffraction studies show that copper crystallizes in an FCC unit cell with cell edge of In a separate experiment, copper is determined to have a density of , the atomic mass of copper would be:

In face-centred cubic and body centred cubic whose unit cell lengths are and respectively, a metal crystallises into two cubic phases. What is the ratio of densities of and

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

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

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

Copper crystallizes in an FCC unit cell with cell edge of The density of copper is , Calculate the atomic mass of copper.

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

A crystalline solid adopts sodium chloride type structure with edge length of the unit cell as and formula mass of . The density of the crystalline compound is

An element forms ccp lattice with a cell edge length of . The density of the element is . The atoms mass of the element will be [Take ]

The density of iron crystal is . If the edge length of unit cell is and atomic mass is , find the number of atoms in the unit cell. (Given: Avogadro’s number = )

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

A solid has a density of forms face-centred cubic crystals of edge length . What is the molar mass of the solid? (Avogadro's constant )

At , copper has unit cell structure with a cell edge length of . What is the approximate density of (in ) at this temperature? (Atomic mass of )

The number of unit cells in of FCC crystal with density and cell edge of , is

The number of atoms in of an FCC crystal with density and cell edge equal to is equal to:

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

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