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    The Solid State

    Assignment ( Numericals )

    1. Sodium crystallises in a bcc unit cell. What is the approximate number of


    unit cells in 4.6 g of sodium? Given that the atomic mass of sodium is 23
    g mol–1. [Ans. : 6.022 × 1022]

    *2. In a crystalline solid anions ‘C’ are arranged in cubic close packing, cations
    ‘A’ occupy 50% of tetrahedral voids and cations ‘B’ occupy 50% of octanedral
    voids. What is the formula of the solid? [Ans. : A2BC2]

    *3. Magnetite, a magnetic oxide of iron used on recording tapes, crystallises


    1 1
    with iron atoms occupying of the tetrahedral holes and of the
    8 2
    octahedral holes in a closed packed array of oxides ions. What si the
    formula of magnetite? [Ans. : Fe3O4]

    4. A metal crystalises into two cubic lattices fcc and bcc, whose edge length
    are 3.5Å and 3.0Å respectively. Calculate the ratio of the densities of fcc
    and bcc lattices. [Ans. : 1.26]

    5. An element of atomic mass 98.5 g mol–1 occurs in fcc structure. If its unit
    cell edge length is 500 pm and its density is 5.22 g cm–3. Calculate the
    value of Avogadro constant. [Ans. : 6.03 × 1023 mol–1]

    6. An element crystallises in a cubic close packed structure having a fcc unit


    cell of an edge 200 pm. Calculate the density if 200 g of this element
    contain 24 × 1023 atoms. [Ans. : 41.6 g cm–3]

    7. A fcc unit cell containing atoms of element (molar mass 60.4 g mol–1) has
    cell edge 4 × 10–8 cm. Calculate the density of unit cell.
    [Ans. : 6.23 g/cm3]

    *8. The metal calcium (atomic mass = 40 gm mol–1] crystallises in a fcc unit
    cell with a = 0.556 nm. Calculate the density of the metal if (i) It contains
    0.2% Frenkel defect. (ii) It contains 0.1% schottky defect.
    [Ans. : (i) 1.5463 g/cm3; (ii) 1.5448g/cm3]

    ZM 4 0.1
    Hint : i d 3 ii Z 4 – 3.996
    a NA 100

    9. Analysis shows that a metal oxide has a empirical formula M0.96O. Calculate
    the percentage of M2+ and M3+ ions in this crystal.
    [Ans. : M2+ = 91.7%, M3+ = 8.3%]

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    10. AgCl is doped with 10–2 mol% of CdCl2, find the concentration of cation
    vacancies. [Ans. : 6.02 × 1019 mol]

    11. A metallic element has a body centered cubic lattice. Edge length of unit
    cell is 2.88 × 10–8 cm. The density of the metal is 7.20 gcm–3. Calculate
    (a) The volume of unit cell.

    (b) Mass of unit cell.

    (c) Number of atoms in 100 g of metal.

    [Ans. : (a) 2.39 × 10–23 cm3 (b) 1.72 × 10–22 g, (c) 1.162 × 1024 atoms]

    12. Molybednum has atomic mass 96 g mol–1 with density 10.3 g/cm3. The
    edge length of unit cell is 314 pm. Determine lattice structure whether
    simple cubic, bcc or fcc.

    (Given NA = 6.022 × 1023 mol–1) [Ans. : Z = 2, bcc type]

    *13. The density of copper metal is 8.95 g cm–3. If the radius of copper atom
    is 127 pm, is the copper unit cell a simple cubic, a body-centred cubic or
    a face centred cubic structure?

    (Given at. mass of Cu = 63.54 g mol–1 and NA = 6.02 × 1023 mol–1]


    [Ans. : Z = 4 fcc type]

    ZM
    [Hint : d 3
    calculate Z/a3 by putting the values given in the
    a NA
    question.

    3
    Z 43 r
    Calculate P.E. by 3
    100 using value of Z/a3, 74% results the
    a
    fcc unit cells].

    14. The well known mineral fluorite is chemically calcium fluoride. It is known
    that in one unit cell of this mineral there are 4 Ca2+ ions and 8F– ions and
    that Ca2+ ions are arranged in a fcc lattice. The F– ions fill all the tetrahedral
    holes in the fcc lattice of Ca2+ ions. The edge of the unit cell is 5.46 × 10–
    8 cm in length. The density of the solid is 3.18 g cm–3 use this information

    to calculate Avogadro’s number (Molar mass of CaF2 = 78.08 g mol–1]


    [Ans. : 6.02 × 1023 mol–1]

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