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What is the total number of atoms per unit cell in a face-centred cubic (fcc) structure?


A face-centred cubic (fcc) unit cell contains atoms at all the corners and at the centre of all the faces of the cube. It can be seen that each atom located at the face-centre is shared between two adjacent
unit cells and only 1/2 of each atom belongs to a unit cell.

Thus, in a face-centred cubic
(fcc) unit cell:
(i) 8 corners atoms × 1/8 atom per unit cell=8×1/8
  = 1 atom
(ii) 6 face-centred atoms ×
1/2 atom per unit cell = 6 ×1/2 = 3 atoms
∴ Total number of atoms per unit cell = 4 atoms

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Why is potassium chloride sometimes violet instead of pure white.

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These electron impart violet colour to the KCl crystal.
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What is the coordination number of each type of ions in a rock-salt type crystal structure?

Rock salt or NaCl has face centred cubic structure ,here each ion (cation/anion) is surrounded by 6 ions of opposite charges, thus coordination number is 6.
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What is the two-dimentional coordination number of a molecule in square closed packed layer ?


The coordination number is 4.
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What type of substances exhibits anti-ferromagnetism?

A substance in which magnetic moments align in such a way that the net magnetic moment is zero, exhibits anti-ferromagnetism. exampe MnO, FeO, NiO etc.
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