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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

whats the relation between edge length and radius of the carbon atom in diamond?

Profile image of Rohit Mahadev
14 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Gaurav
11 Years ago
Diamond has FCC structure.

And we know that for FCC crystal
a = 4/√2 r
where a is the edge length
and
r = radious of carbon atom