Close Packed Structures and Packing Efficiency

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Close Packed Structures and Packing Efficiency: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Coordination Number, Coordination Number of Simple Cubic Lattice, Coordination Number of BCC Lattice, Coordination Number of FCC or CCP Lattice, and Close Packing of Spheres in Crystalline Solids.

Important Questions on Close Packed Structures and Packing Efficiency

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Silver crystallises with face-centred cubic unit cells and each side of the unit cell has a length of 409 pm. Determine the radius of an atom of silver. (Assume that each face atom is touching the four corner atoms.)

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A metallic element crystallises into lattice having a layering sequence of ABABAB. Any packing of sphere leaves out voids in the lattice. Determine what percentage by volume of this lattice is empty space.

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The coordination number of a metal crystallizing in a hexagonal close-packed structure is:

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CsBr has bcc structure with edge length 4.3 Å . The shortest inter ionic distance in between Cs+ and Br is:

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The edge length of a face-centred cubic cell of an ionic substance is 508 pm. If the radius of the cation is 110 pm, the radius of anion is 

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What is the coordination number of sodium in sodium oxide Na2O?

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The number of octahedral sites per sphere in FCC structure is 

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In a compound, atoms of elements Y form ccp lattice and those of element X occpy 23rd of tetrahedral voids. The formula of the compound will be 

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Percentage of free space in cubic close-packed structured and in a body centred packed structure are respectively

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Interstitial sites that are formed when three closed packed spheres of one layer is put on three close packed spheres of the second layer, their positions being inverted with respect to each other.

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A tetrahedral void in fcc is formed by atoms at

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Number of formula units in unit cell of MgO (rock salt), ZnS (zinc blende) and Pt (fcc) respectively

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What is the coordination number of Rb+ in RbBr unit cell if ionic radii of Rb+ and Br-ions being 148 and 195 respectively?

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In normal spinel structure there is a closed packed array of O2-ions. The trivalent cations are present in

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KF has NaCl type of structure. The edge length of its unit cell has been found to be 537.6 pm. The distance between K+F- in KF is

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For tetrahedral co-ordination, the radius ratio r+/r- should be

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The packing efficiency of the 2D square cell shown below is

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In a BCC unit cell, if half of the atoms per unit cell are removed, then percentage void is

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In a ccp type structure, if half of the face-centred atoms are removed, then percentage void in unit cell is approximately

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The coordination number in one dimensional close packed arrangement is