FOUR EDGE ACADEMY 4 E A 2 2 1 2

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CAT – 1 (Continuous Assessment Test)
CHEMISTRY
Time allowed: 1 hr Maximum marks: 30
SECTION-A 1M/Q.No.1 -5
1. Aluminium crystallizes in an fcc structure. Atomic radius of the metal is 125 pm. What is the length of
the side of the unit cell of the metal?
2. What type of interactions hold the molecules together in a polar molecular solid?
3. Write a feature which will distinguish a metallic solid from an ionic solid.
4. ‘Crystalline solids are anisotropic in nature.’ What does this statement mean?
5. The edge lengths of the unit cells in terms of the radius of spheres constituting fcc,bcc and simple cubic
unit cell are respectively ____________.
SECTION - B 2M/ Q.No.5 -8
6. Define the following terms in relation to crystalline solids:(i) Unit cell (ii) Coordination number
Give one example in each case.
7. Calculate the density of silver which crystallizes in face centred cubic form. The distance between
nearest metal atoms is 287pm.(molar mass of Ag=107.87gmol -1, No=6.022 x 1023)
8. What type of substances would make better permanent magnets, ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic, why?

SECTION - C 3M/ Q.No.9 -11

9. How will you distinguish between the following pairs of terms:
(i) Tetrahedral and octahedral voids
(ii) Crystal lattice and unit cell
10. Calculate the number of atoms in a cubic unit cell having one atom on each corner and two atoms on
each body diagonal.
11.  An element X (molar mass = 60 g mol-1) has a density of 6.23 g cm -3. Identify the type of cubic unit
cell, if the edge length of the unit cell is 4 X 10-8cm.

SECTION -D 2M/ Q.No.12 -13

12.(a) Calculate the packing efficiency of a metal crystal for face centered cubic lattice.
(b) An alloy of gold and cadmium crystallizes with a cubic structure in which gold atoms occupy
the corners and cadmium atoms fit into the face centre. Assign formula for this alloy.

13. (a) An element with density 10 g cm-3forms a cubic cell with edge length of 3 X 10-8 cm. What is
the nature of cubic unit cell if the atomic mass of the element is 81 g mol?
  (b) Iron(II) oxide has a cubic structure and each side of unit cell is 5 A. If density of the oxide is 4 g
cm-3, calculate the number of Fe+2and O-2ions present in each unit cell. [Atomic mass of Fe = 56
\ u, O = 16 u, NA = 6.023 X 1023 mol-1]