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Solid States Chemistry: A. Answers The Following Questions (Any 10) 10×1 10

This document provides an overview of solid state chemistry by Sandip Mal. It includes 10 single-sentence questions about topics like crystal lattice structures, defects in solids, and semiconductor properties. It also lists 5 short answer questions about topics such as packing efficiency, point defects, and differences between metallic and ionic crystals. Finally, it provides 3 multi-part questions about relationships between unit cell parameters and atomic radii, differences between defect types, and calculating properties based on crystal structure and parameters. The document serves as a reference for key concepts in solid state chemistry.

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Solid States Chemistry: A. Answers The Following Questions (Any 10) 10×1 10

This document provides an overview of solid state chemistry by Sandip Mal. It includes 10 single-sentence questions about topics like crystal lattice structures, defects in solids, and semiconductor properties. It also lists 5 short answer questions about topics such as packing efficiency, point defects, and differences between metallic and ionic crystals. Finally, it provides 3 multi-part questions about relationships between unit cell parameters and atomic radii, differences between defect types, and calculating properties based on crystal structure and parameters. The document serves as a reference for key concepts in solid state chemistry.

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SOLID STATES CHEMISTRY BY SANDIP MAL

A. Answers the following questions ( any 10) 10×1=10

1. Arrange simple cubic, bcc and fcc lattice in decreasing order of the fraction
of the occupied space

2. How much space is empty in a hexagonal closed packed solid?

3. Calculate the number of atoms in a cubic unit cell having one atom on each
corner and two atoms on each body diagonal.

4. Define the term ‘doping’.

5. What makes the crystal of KCl sometimes appear violet?

6. How many octahedral voids are there in 1 mole of a compound having cubic
closed packed structure?

7. What type of stochiometric defect is shown by (i) ZnS and (ii) CsCl?

8. Name the crystal system for which all four types of unit cells are possible.

9. In NaCl crystal, Cl– ions form the cubic close packing. What sites are
occupied by Na+ ions.

10. Solid A is very hard, electrical insulator in solid as well as in molten state
and melts at extremely high temperature. What type of solid is it?

11. In a p-type semiconductor the current is said to move through holes.


Explain.

12. An element crystallises separately both in hcp and ccp structure. Will the
two structures have the same density? Justify your answer
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B. Short answer type quentions (any 5) 5×2=10


1. Define F–centres. Mention its two consequences

2. What is packing efficiency. Calculate the packing efficiency in body centered


cubic structure.

3. What do you understand by the following types of stacking sequences : i)


ABAB…. II)ABCABCA….. What kind of lattices do these sequences lead to?

4. In a fcc arrangement of A and B atoms. A are present at the corners of the


unit cell and B are present at the face centres. If one atom of A is missing from
its position at the corners, what is the formula of the compound?

5. Pure silicon is an insulator. Silicon doped with phosphorus is a


semiconductor. Silicon doper with gallium is also a semiconductor. What is the
difference between the two types?

6. Define the term ‘point defects’ Mention are main difference between
stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric point defects.

7. Explain :

(a) List two differences between metallic and ionic crystals.

(b) Sodium chloride is hard but sodium metal is soft.


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C. Answers the following questions (any 3) 3×3=9


1. Write the relationship between atomic radius (r) and edge length (a) of cubic
unit cell for

(a) Simple cubic unit cell

(b) Body centred cubic unit cell

(c) Face centred cubic unit cell

2. Write and explain three differences between Schottky and Frenkel defects
under the heads :

(i) Effect on density

(ii) Effect on electrical conductivity

(iii) Effect on stability of the crystal

3. 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?

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


with iron atoms occupying 1/8 of the tetrahedral holes and 1/2 of the
octahedral holes in a closed packed array of oxides ions..What is the formula of
magnetite?

5. 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

6. An element of atomic mass 98.5 g mol–1 occurs in fcc structure. If its unit
cell edge length is 500pm and its density is 5.22 g cm–3. Calculate the value of
Avogadro constant.

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