NEWLIGHT PRACTICE PAPER

SOLID STATE
One Mark Question:

1)Find out the number of atoms per unit cell in FCC structure having only single atom in lattice points.

2)Name the crystal defect which lowers the density of ionic crystal.

3)Cu is conducting as such while CuSO4 is conducting only in molten state or in aq. solution. Give reason.

4)Why is Frenkel defect found in AgCl?

5)Name the crystal in which both Schottky & Frenkel defect is found?

6)What happen to Si when it is doped with Ga?

7)Why does excess of K in KCl make crystal appear violet?

8)How many lattice points are there in a BCC unit cell?

9)Which point defect lowers the density of ionic crystal?

10)In a close packing of sphere, what is the ratio b/w the radius of the sphere & of octahedral void?

11)What is difference b/w Ferromagnetic & Ferrimagnetic solid?

12)How many Cs(+) ion occupy second nearest neighbour location a central Cs(+) ion in CsCl?

13)How many Na+ ion occupy second nearest neighbour location of a Na+ ion in NaCl structure?

14)In an alloy of Au & Cd, Au crystallizes in cubic structure occupy corner only & Cd fit into Face center
voids. What is the composition of alloy?

15)What is difference b/w Glass & quartz though both contain SiO4(4-) units?

16)What is effect of Frenkel defect on electrical conductivity of solid?

17)Name a substance which on addition to AgCl causes cation vacancy in it?

18)What is meant by co-ordination number in ionic crystal?

19)What is maximum possible co-ordination number of an atom in HCP crystal structure of element?

20)What is effect of pressure on NaCl crystal?

21)In the crystal of ZnS, Zn occupies tetrahedral void. What is co-ordination number of Zn.

22)What happen when ferromagnetic substance is subjected to high temperature?

23)A cubic solid is made of two element X & Y. Y are at corner & X at the body center. What is formula of
the compound?
24)Name the non-stoichiometric point defect responsible for color in alkali halides.

25)What type of substance exhibits anti ferromagnetism.

26)Crystalline solids are anisotropic in nature? What does this means.

27)Give an example of ionic compound which shows Frenkel defect?

28)Explain the following with suitable example: (a) Schottky defect (b) Interstitial defect

29)Write a feature which will distinguish a metallic solid from an ionic solid?

30)How do ferromagnetic substance show better magnetism than anti ferromagnetism substance?

31)What happens when CdCl2 is doped with AgCl.

Three Marks Questions:

1)Silver crystallizes in FCC unit cell. Each side of the unit cell has a length 400 pm. Calculate the radius of
Ag atom. (Assume the atom just touch each other on the diagonal across the face of unit cell that is each
atom is touching the four corner atom).

2)Copper crystallizes in a FCC lattice and has density of 8.930 g/cm^3 at 239 k. Calculate radius of
copper atom.

3)Chromium crystallizes in a bcc lattice. The length of unit cell edge is found to be 287 pm. Calculate the
atomic radius of chromium.

4)The density of Cu metal is 8.95g/cm3. If the radius of Cu atom be 127.8pm, is Cu unit cell is simple
cubic, BCC or FCC.

5)Cu crystallizes in FCC lattice with edge length 3.61 * 10^(-8)cm. Calculate density of Cu.

6)Fe has BCC unit cell with cell edge of 286.6pm. The density of Fe is 7.87g/cm3. Calculate Avagadro’ no.

7)Ag crystallizes with FCC unit cell. Each side of unit cell has length of 409pm. What is radius of an atom
of Ag.

8)Silver crystallizes with FCC lattice. The edge length of unit cell is 4.07 * 10^(-8)cm & its density is
10.5g/cm3. Calculate on this basis the atomic mass of Ag.

9)The density of Cr metal is 72g/cm3. If the unit cell has edge length of 289pm. Find type of unit cell.

10)If a NaCl crystals are doped with 2 * 10^(-3)mole percent of SrCl2. Find cation vacancies per mole.

11)An element crystallizes in FCC structure. 200g of this element has 4.12 * 10^24 atoms. The density of
A is 7.2g/cm^3. Calculate length of unit cell.

12)KX crystal has FCC structures. What is distance b/w K(+) & X(-) in KX so that its density is 2.48g/cm3.

13)Determine the type of cubic lattice to which the iron crystal belongs, if its unit cell has an edge length
of 286pm & density of iron crystal is 7.86g/cm3.
14)An element crystallizes in BCC structure. The edge length of its unit cell is 288pm. If the density of
crystal is 7.2g/cm3. What is the atomic mass of element.

15)Calculate the number of unit cell in 8.1g of Al, if it crystallizes in FCC structure.

16)An element X with an atomic mass of 81 u has a density 10.2g/cm3. If the volume of unit cell is 2.7 *
10^(-23) cm3, identify the type of cubic unit cell.

17) (a) Out of KCl and AgCl, which one shows Schottky defect and why?

(b) Why does ZnO appear yellow on heating?

MCQ TYPE QUESTIONS

1) The edge length of face centered cubic unit cell is 508 pm. If the radius of the cation is 110 pm, the
radius of anion is

(a) 144 pm (b) 288 pm (c) 618 pm (d) 398 pm

2) Due to Frenkel defect, the density of the ionic solids

(a) increases (b) decreases (c) does not change (d) changes

3) The number of octahedral sites per sphere in fcc structure is

(a) 8 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 1

4) In a solid ‘AB’ having the NaCl structure, ‘A’ atoms occupy the corners of the cubic unit cell. If all the
face-centered atoms along one of the axes are removed, then the resultant stoichiometry of the solid is

(a) AB2 (b) A2B (c) A4B3 (d) A3B4

5) How many unit cells are present in a cube-shaped ideal crystal of NaCl of mass 1.00 g?

(a) 5.14 * 1021 (b) 1.28 * 1021 (c) 1.71 * 1021 (d) 2.57 * 1021

6) Which of the following FCC structure contains cations in alternate tetrahedral voids?

(a) NaCl (b) ZnS (c) Na2O (d) CaF2

7) If the edge length of a NaH unit cell is 488 pm, what is the length of Na-H bond if it crystallises in the
fcc structure?

(a) 122 pm (b) 244 pm (c) 488 pm (d) 976 pm

8) An alloy of copper, silver & gold is found to have copper forming the simple cubic close packed lattice.
If silver atoms occupy the face centers & gold atoms are present at the body center, then the formula of
the alloy will be
(a) Cu3AgAu (b) CuAg3Au (c) Cu4Ag2Au (d) CuAgAu

9) How many ‘nearest’ & ‘next nearest’ neighbours respectively potassium has in bcc lattice?

(a) 8,8 (b) 8,6 (c) 6,8 (d) 6,6

10) The (1,1,1) plane is parallel to

(a) XY plane (b) YZ plane (c) ZX plane (d) none of these

11) If NaCl is doped with 10(-4) mol % of SrCl2 the concentration of cation vacancies will be

(NA = 6.02 * 1023 mol-1)

(a) 6.02 * 1014 mol-1 (b) 6.02 * 1015 mol-1 (c) 6.02 * 1016 mol-1 (d) 6.02 * 1017 mol-1

ASSERTION-REASON TYPE QUESTIONS

The question given below consist of Assertion (A) & Reason (R). Use the following key to select the
correct answer:

(a) If both (A) & (R) are correct & (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(b) If both (A) & (R) are correct but (R) is not correct explanation of (A).

(c) If (A) is correct but (R) is incorrect.

(d) If (A) is incorrect but (R) is correct.

(e) If both (a) & (R) are incorrect.

1) (A) In NaCl crystal, all the octahedral voids are occupied by Na+ ions.

(R) The number of octahedral voids is equal to the number of Cl- ions in the packing.

2) (A) In any ionic solid [MX], with Schottky defects, the number of positive & negative ions are same.

(R) Equal number of cation & anion vacancies are present.

3) (A) Frenkel defects are shown by silver halides.

(R) Ag+ ions have small size.

4) (A) Antiferromagnetic substances on heating to high temperature becomes paramagnetic.

(R) On heating, randomization of spins occurs.

5) (A) Graphite is an example of tetragonal crystal system.

(R) For a tetragonal system, a = b ≠ c, α = β = 90, γ = 120.

6) (A) Covalent crystals have the highest melting point.

(R) Covalent bonds are stronger than ionic bonds.