VIGYAS SOLID STATE QUIZ

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Part- I

2. The unit cell with crystals graphic dimensions

a = b  c ;  =  =  = 90 is
(A) Cubic (B) Tetragonal (C) Monoclinic (D) Hexagonal

3. In a FCC lattice A occupies the corners, B At the faces and C at alternate tetra hedral voids. The formula is
(A) AB3C (B) AB3C4 (C) A3BC4 (D) A8B3C4

4. A Binary solid ( A +B− ) has a rock salt structure. If the edge length is 400 pm, and the radius of cation is 75
pm, the radius of anion is
(A) 100 pm (B) 125 pm (C) 250 pm (D) 325 pm

A Binary solid has zinc blende structure with B( ) ions constituting the lattice and A ( ) ions occupying 25%.
− +
7.
Tetrahedral voids, the formula of the solid is
(A) AB (B) A2B (C) AB2 (D) AB4

8. CsCl structure with edge length 4.3 pm, the shortest Interionic distance between Cs + and Cl(–) is
(A) 3.72 pm (B) 1.86 pm (C) 7.44 pm (D) 4.3 pm

11. Match the following

Column – I Column – II
a
(A) Simple cubic (p) rank = 4 r=
2 2
3a
(B) BCC (q) rank = 2 r=
4
a
(C) FCC (r) rank = 1 r=
2
a
(D) (s) rank= 6 r=
2
PART – 2

Single Correct Type

1. Diamond is a suitable example of
(A) Covalent crystal (B) molecular crystal (C) ionic crystal (D) metallic crystal

2. A crystal is made up of A+ and B–. The anions are occupying the face centred cubic positions and the cations
are occupying all the octahedral voids, then the co-ordination number of A+ is
(A) 8 (B) 6 (C) 12 (D) 10

4. The feature that is not observed in a FCC metallic crystal is:

(A) The coordination number of any atom is 12
(B) The layering pattern can be ABCABC…..
(C) if a small atom is placed in the void present at body centre, then it touches 8 metal atoms
(D) all the above

5. The figure depicts, the unit cell for a compound containing atoms A
(filled circles) and B (open circles). The empirical formula of the
compound is
(A) AB (C) AB2
(C) A2B (D) A6B

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6. A face-centred cubic lattice is made up of two types of atoms, atom A and B in which A occupies the corner
positions and B occupies the face centres. If atoms along a body diagonal are removed, empirical formula of
the remaining solid would be
(A) AB2 (B) A3B (C) A7B3 (D) AB4

7. Thallium cyanide, Tl(CN)x crystallizes as a simple cubic array CN − ions with thallium ions in all of the cubic
holes. What is the oxidation state of thallium in this compound?
(A) -1 (B) 0 (C) +1 (D) +2

8. You are given 6 identical balls. What is the maximum number of square voids and triangular voids (in
separate arrangements) that can be created?
(A) 2, 4 (B) 4, 2 (C) 4, 3 (D) 3, 4

9. Consider a Body Centred Cubic (BCC) arrangement, let de, dfd, dbd be the distances between successive
atoms located along the edge, the face-diagonal, and the body diagonal respectively in an unit cell. Their
order is given by:
(A) de < dfd < dbd (B) dfd > dbd > de (C) dfd > de > dbd (D) dbd > de > dfd

MULTI - CORRECT TYPE

11. Which of the following statement is/are correct?
(A) NaCl structure is an example of FCC ionic lattice
(B) In CaF2 structure, each F– ion is surrounded by four Ca+2 ions and each Ca+2 ion is surrounded by 8 F–
ions.
(C) NaCl has 6:6 co-ordinations while CsCl has 8:8 co-ordinations
(D) none of the above

14. Select correct statement(s) among the following

(A) The shortest distance between 2 tetrahedral voids is less than that between 2 octahedral voids
(B) If RANK of a crystal of metal M changes, so does the density of metal
(C) A primitive cubic lattice has only one type of Void
(D) none of the above

23. Select the correct statements

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(A) For CsCl unit cell (ede–length = a) rc + ra = a
2
(B) For NaCl unit cell (edge length = ), rc + ra =
2
(C) The void space in a bcc unit cell is 0.68
(D) The void space percentage in a face centred unit cell is 26%

Comprehension-1

B- ions
A+ ions

a = Edge length of unit cell

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19. Which of the following is the simplest formula of the solid?
(A) AB (B) AB2 (C) A2B (D) BA

20. A+ ions are located in :

(A) ccp arrangement (B) octahedral void (C) tetrahedral void (D) cubical void

21. Closest distance between two B − ions is:

a a a 3
(A) a (B) (C) (D)
2 2 2
22. Which of the following stacking pattern is formed by B − ions?
(A) AAAAAA ….. (B) ABABABAB….. (C) ABCABCABC….. (D) ABCCBAABCCBA..

Comprehension-2

A cubic unit cell is said to be primitive if all the eight corners of the cube are occupied by the same atoms and these
atoms are not found anywhere else in the cube. Rank of a primitive cubic unit cell is 1. A unit cell is said to be ideal
body centred cubic unit cell if the same atoms or ions are present at all the eight corners of a cube and is also present
at the centre of cube and is not present any where else in the cube. Rank of body centred cubic unit cell is 2. A unit
cell is said to be ideal face-centred cubic unit cell if the same atoms or ions are present at all the corners of the cube
and are also present at the centre of each square face and are not present anywhere else in the unit cell. Rank of
FCC is 4. In order to calculate the density of crystal lattice.
massed of unit cell
Density of unit cell (r) =
volume of unit cell
23. Li crystallizes in BCC, the edge length of unit cell is 351pm. What would be radius of Li atom
(A) 151.98 (B) 273 pm (C) 290 pm (D) 76 pm

24. How many unit cells are present in 39 grams of potassium that crystallizes in BCC structure (atomic mass of K =
39)
(A) 0.5 NA (B) 0.25 NA (C) NA (D) 0.75 NA
Where NA means Avagadro’s Number

MATRIX MATCH
29.
Column I Column II
(Arrangement of atoms) ( a is edge length)
Anions in CCP and cations in all
(A) (p) Coordination number of cation is 4
tetrahedral voids
Anions in CCP and cations in all
(B) (q) Coordination number of anion is 6.
octeheral voids.
Anions in CCP and cations in alternative Distance between two anions along body
(C) (r)
tetrahedral voids diagonal is 3a
The distance between cation and anion is
Anions in simple cubic and cation in body
(D) (s) 3a
centre
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