Number of Atoms in a Unit Cell

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Number of Atoms in a Unit Cell: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Number of Effective Atoms in Simple Cubic Lattice, Number of Effective Atoms in Face-Centered Cubic Lattice & Number of Effective Atoms in Body-Centered Cubic Lattice etc.

Important Questions on Number of Atoms in a Unit Cell

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Silver crystallises in a fcc lattice. The edge length of its unit cell is   4.077× 10 8 cm  and its density is 10.5gcm3. The atomic mass of silver on the basis of this would be: (NA=6.02×1023 mol1)

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In face centred cubic (FCC) crystal lattice, edge length is 400 pm. The diameter of greatest sphere which can be fit into the interstitial void without distortion of lattice is

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A substance AxBy crystallizes in a face centred cubic (FCC) lattice in which atoms A occupy each corner of the cube and atoms B occupy face centres of the cube composition of the substance AxBy is

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In a Solid AB having the NaCl type structure, A atoms occupy the corners of the cubic unit cell. If all the face-centred atoms along one of the axes are removed, then the resultant stoichiometry of the solid is:

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In a compound, atoms of an element Y form CCP lattice and those of element X occupies 23rd of the tetrahedral voids. The formula of the compound can be

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The no. of particles present per BCC unit cell is :

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Unit cell of a metal has edge length of 288 pm and density of 7.86 g cm3. Determine the type of crystal lattice. [Atomic mass of metal = 56 g mol1

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The number of atoms per unit cell of body centred cube is: 

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The total number of body centred lattices possible among the 14 Bravais lattices is

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The edge length of face centred cubic unit cell is 508 pm. If the radius of the cation is 110 pm, the radius of the anion is

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ABCABC arrangement packing efficiency in face centred cubic lattice is 100%.

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Explain how much portion of an atom located at:

Body centre of a cubic unit cell is part of its neighbouring unit cell.

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Explain how much portion of an atom located at: 

Corner?  

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How will you distinguish between the following pairs of terms? 

Face centred and body centred cubic cell. 

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How many lattice points are in unit cells of following lattice? 

Body centred. 

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How many lattice points are in unit cells of following lattice? 

Face centred tetrahedral

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An ionic compound AxBy occurs in fcc type crystal structure with B ion at the centre of each face and A ion occupying corners of the cube. Give the formula AxBy.

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A compound formed by elements A and B crystallizes in the cubic where A atoms are at the corners of the cube and B are at the face centres. The formula of compound is :

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Give the number of lattice points in one unit cell of the crystal structures.

Face centered tetragonal

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Give the number of lattice points in one unit cell of the crystal structures.

Body centered cubic