मराठी
कर्नाटक बोर्ड पी.यू.सी.पीयूसी विज्ञान 2nd PUC Class 12

Gold (atomic radius = 0.144 nm) crystallises in a face-centred unit cell. What is the length of a side of the cell?

Advertisements
Advertisements

प्रश्न

Gold (atomic radius = 0.144 nm) crystallises in a face-centred unit cell. What is the length of a side of the cell?

संख्यात्मक
Advertisements

उत्तर

For a face-centred unit cell:

`a = 2 sqrt 2 r`

It is given that the atomic radius, r = 0.144 nm

So, `a = 2 sqrt 2 xx 0.144` nm

= 2 × 1.414 × 0.144 nm   ...`(∴ sqrt2 = 0.414)`

= 0.407 nm

Hence, length of a side of the cell = 0.407 nm

shaalaa.com
  या प्रश्नात किंवा उत्तरात काही त्रुटी आहे का?

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Which is true for F-centers?


Which crystal system has axial angles equal to 90°?


Calculate the number of unit cells present in 1 g of gold which has a face-centered cubic lattice.


Which crystal system has a ≠ b ≠ c?


Coordination numbers of Zn2+ and S2– in the crystal structure of wurtzite are ____________.


The total number of tetrahedral voids in the face-centered unit cell is ______.


A unit cell of BaCl2 (fluorite structure) is made up of ____________.


The fraction of the total volume occupied by the atoms present in a simple cube is ____________.


The distance between Na and Cl ions in NaCl with a density 2.165 g cm–3 is __________.


Assertion: Total number of octahedral voids present in unit cell of cubic close packing including the one that is present at the body centre, is four.

Reason: Besides the body centre there is one octahedral void present at the centre of each of the six faces of the unit cell and each of which is shared between two adjacent unit cells.


A crystal has the lattice parameters a ≠ b ≠ c and α = β = γ = 90°. The crystal system is


CsBr, crystallises in a body centred cubic lattice. The unit cell edge length is 436.6 pm. Given that the atomic mass of Cs = 133 a. m. u and that of Br = 80 a. m. u and Avogadro's number being 6.02 × 1023 mol–1, the density of Cs Br is:- .


Na and Mg crystallise in Bee and Fcc type crystals respectively. "The no. of atoms in the unit cells of their respective crystals is:


Sodium crystallises in a body-centred cubic unit cell. (bcc) with edge length 4.29 A. what is the radius of the sodium atom? What is the length of the body diagonal of the unit cell?


The correct option for the number of body-centered unit cells in all 14 types of Bravais lattice unit cells is ______


A certain element crystallises in a bcc lattice of unit cell edge length 27 A°. If the same element under the same conditions crystallises in the fcc lattice, the edge length of the unit cell in A° will be ______. (Round off to the Nearest Integer).

[Assume each lattice point has a single atom]


Gold crystallizes in a face-centered cubic lattice. If the length of the edge of the unit cell is 407 pm. The density of gold assuming it to be spherical is ______ g/cm3. Atomic mass of gold = 197 amu.


Which primitive unit cell has unequal edge lengths (a ≠ b ≠ c) and all axial angles different from 90°?


Share
Notifications

Englishहिंदीमराठी


      Forgot password?
Use app×