PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Assignment

Solid State (2)

1. A solid has a structure in which W atoms are located at the corners of a cubic lattice, O atom at
the centre of the eges and Na atom at centre of the cubic. The formula for the compound is :-
(A) NaWO2 (B) NaWO3 (C) Na2WO3 (D) NaWO4
2. The mass of a unit cell of CsCl corresponds to :-
(A) 1 Cs+ and 1 Cl– (B) 1 Cs+ and 6 Cl– (C) 4 Cs+ and 4 Cl– (D) 8 Cs+ and 1 Cl–
3. In the closest packing of atoms A (radius : ra), the radius of atom B that can be fitted into tetrahedral
voids is :-
(A) 0.155 ra (B) 0.225 ra (C) 0.414 ra (D) 0.732 ra
4. A cubic solid is made up of two elements A and B. Atoms B are at the corners of the cube and
A at the body centre. What is the formula of compound.
(A) AB (B) AB2 (C) A2B (D) None
5.
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A compound alloy of gold and copper crystallizes in a cubic lattice in which gold occupy that lattice
point at corners of the cube and copper atom occupy the centres of each of the cube faces. What
is the formula of this compound.
(A) AuCu6 (B) AuCu (C) AuCu3 (D) None
6. KF crystallizes in the NaCl type structure. If the radius of K ions 132 pm and that of F– ion is
+

135 pm, what is the closet K–K distance ?

(A) Can not say (B) 534 pm (C) 755 pm (D) 378 pm
+ –
7. The two ions A and B have radii 88 and 200 pm respectively. In the closed packed crystal of
compound AB, predict the co-ordination number of A+ .
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 4 (D) None
8. Lithium forms body centred cubic structure. The length of the side of its unit cell is 351 pm. Atomic
radius of the lithium will be :-
(A) 152 pm (B) 75 pm (C) 300 pm (D) 240 pm
9. In a face centred cubic lattice, atom A occupies the corner positions and atom B occupies the face
centre positions. If one atom of B is missing from one of the face centred points, the formula of
the compound is :-
(A) A2B3 (B) A2B5 (C) A2B (D) AB2
10. In a compound, atoms of element Y form ccp lattice and those of element X occupy 2/3rd of
tetrahedral voids. The formula of the compound will be -
(A) X4Y3 (B) X2Y3 (C) X2Y (D) X3Y4

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11. A compound MpXq has cubic close packing (ccp) arrangement of X. Its unit cell structure is shown
below. The empirical formula of the compound is :

M=
X=

(A) MX (B) MX2 (C) M2X (D) M5X14

ANSWER KEY
1. B 2. A 3. B 4. A 5. C 6. D 7. A
8. A 9. B 10. A 11. B

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