Voids
Voids: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Octahedral and Tetrahedral Voids, Cubical Voids, Number and Locations of Tetrahedral and Octahedral Voids in FCC, Voids and Their Types and, Triangular Planar Voids
Important Questions on Voids
The distance between an octahedral and a tetrahedral void in in FCC lattice would be:
(Consider edge length is )

Column I (Type of crystal) | Column II (Location of cations/anions) |
(A) | (p) Cations-fcc, Anions-all tetrahedral voids |
(B) | (q) Anions-fcc, Cations-all tetrahedral voids |
(C) | (r) Anions-fcc, Cations-all octahedral voids |
(D) | (s) Anions-fcc, Cations-alternate tetrahedral voids |

Right option for the number of tetrahedral and octahedral voids in hexagonal primitive unit cell are:

In a compound, atoms of element form cubic close packing lattice and those of element occupy of tetrahedral voids. The formula of the compound will be

The total number of tetrahedral voids in the face centred unit cell is

In a carbon allotrope having lattice, two atoms are at and coordinates. What is the ratio of bond length distance to the edge length of the unit cell?

In a compound, oxide ions are arranged in cubic close packing arrangement. Cations occupy of the tetrahedral voids and cations occupy of the octahedral voids. The formula of the compound is

For the structure given below the site marked as S is a :-

Co-ordination number of cation occupying a tetrahedral void is :-

An ionic compound is expected to have a tetrahedral structure if lies in the range of

The total number of tetrahedral voids in the face-centred unit cell is _____.

The number of tetrahedral sites per sphere in ccp structure is,

The number of octahedral sites per sphere in fcc structure is

The ratio of close packed atoms to octahedral holes in hexagonal close packing is

The ratio of close packed atoms to tetrahedral holes in cubic packing is

In a solid , having the rock salt structure, atoms form the arrangement and atoms occupy all the octahedral voids. If the atom at body centred octahedral void is missing, then the formula of the compound will be:

In a face centred cubic arrangement of metallic atoms, what is the relative ratio of the sizes of tetrahedral and octahedral voids?

The number of tetrahedral and octahedral holes in a hexagonal primitive unit cell are:

In close-packed structures, for every atom, it contains

The empty space between the shaded balls and hollow balls as shown in the diagram is called
