Crystal Structure Quiz

Name:____________________________________________________________ Date:_____
1. Complete the table below (5pts)
Structure Coordination Number of Packing Stacking pattern
number atoms per unit efficiency Ex.ABABA
cell
SCC
BCC
FCC
HCP

2. What is the difference between ionic , metallic and covelant bonds ?

3. What is crystal lattice

4. Polonium crystallizes with a simple cubic unit cell of edge 336 pm

a. What is the density of solid polonium?
b. What is the atomic radius of polonium?
c. What is the volume of one polonium atom?

5. You are given a small bar of an unknown metal. You find the density of the metal to be
9.55 g/cm3. An X-ray diffraction experiment measures the edge of the face-centered
cubic unit cell as 4.06 x 10-10 m. Find the gram-atomic weight of this metal and
tentatively identify it.

6. Prove that the packing efficiency of BCC is 68% and FCC is 72%, Assume that the edge
length of the unit cell of the two structures is 10 cm.

7. A metal crystallizes in a BCC cubic lattice. The radius of the atom is 0.257 nm. The
density of the element is 2.54 g/cm3. What is this metal?