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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

A metal has FCC unit cell with the diameter of metal atom equal to 288pm calculate the edge length of the unit cell

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9 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
The relation b/w the radius of atom and the edge length of the FCC lattice is=> 
a*root(2) = 4r
Hence, a = 4r/root(2) => 2root(2) * (288/2)pm => 407.232 pm