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What is a substitutional impurity defect? - Chemistry

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What is a substitutional impurity defect?

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In this defect, the foreign atoms are found at the lattice sites in place of host atoms. The regular atoms are displaced from their lattice sites by impurity atoms.

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Chapter 1: Solid State - Long answer questions

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