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Calcium crystallizes in a face centred cubic unit cell with a The density of the metal if it contains 0.1% schottky defects would be:
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A face centred cubic unit cell contains four atoms. Schottky defect is basically a vacancy defect in ionic solids. Due to Schottky defects, the vacant spaces will increase, resulting in decrease in number of atoms per unit cell.
Thus, number of atoms will reduce to:
The density of the metal can be calculated by:
Where, is the molecular mass of calcium
is the Avogadro number
is the edge length
Putting the values in the formula above:
Thus, number of atoms will reduce to:
The density of the metal can be calculated by:
Where, is the molecular mass of calcium
is the Avogadro number
is the edge length
Putting the values in the formula above:
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