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Grade 11Physical Chemistry

A metal crystallizes with a face-centered cubic lattice. The edge of the unit cell is 408 pm. The diameter of the metal atom is

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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer9 Years ago
for a FCC crystal lattice 4times the radius of atom is √2 times the edge length so r= a/2√2 so diameter is 2r therefore diameter is 408/√2 pm.