Calculations Involving Unit Cell Dimensions

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Calculations Involving Unit Cell Dimensions: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Density of a Cubic Crystal System etc.

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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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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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Ice crystallises in a hexagonal lattice. At the low temperature at which the structure was determined, the lattice constants were a=4.53 Å and c=7.41 Å. How many H2O molecules are contained in a unit cell? The density of ice is 0.92 g/cc at 0 °C. A unit cell of H2O is shown below:

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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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An element with atomic mass 107.9u crystallizes in a FCC cubic lattice with edge length of 408.6 pm. Calculate the density of the metal in a×103 kgm-3.Thus, calculate the value of 'a'.
(NA=6.022 × 1023)

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Lithium metal has a BCC lattice structure with edge length of unit cell is 352 pm. Calculate density of the metal in gcm-3. (ALi=7 gmol-1

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Calcium metal crystallizes in a FCC cubic lattice with edge length of 0.556 nm. Calculate the density of the metal in kgm-3.

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How can you calculate the atomic mass if density and the dimension of a unit cell are given of an unknown metal? Explain. 

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X-ray diffraction studies show that copper crystallizes in an FCC unit cell with cell edge of 3.608 × 10-8 cm. In a separate experiment, copper is determined to have a density of  8.92 gm cm-3. Calculate the atomic mass of copper. 

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An element has a body centred cubic (bcc) structure with a cell edge of 288 pm. The density of the element is 7.2 gm cm-3. How many atoms are present in 208 gm of the element? 

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Niobium crystallizes in body centred cubic structure. The density in 8.55 gm/cm3 , calculate atomic radius of niobium using its atomic mass 93 u

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Silver crystallizes in FCC lattice. If edge length of the cell is 4.077x10-8 cm and density is 10.5 g cm-3. Calculate the atomic mass of silver. 

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Determine the density of cesium chloride which crystallises in a bcc type structure with the edge length 412.1 pm. The atomic masses of Cs and Cl are 133 and 35.5 respectively.

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Copper crystallises into a fcc structure and the unit cell has length of edge 3.61×10-8 cm. Calculate the density of copper if the molar mass of Cu is 63.5 g mol. (8.92 g cm-3)

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Aluminum crystallizes in a cubic close packed structure. Its metallic radius is 125 mm. What is the length of the side of the unit cell?