Vikas TU
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This defect consists of a vacancy at a cation site. The cation moves to another position between the two layers and is thus surrounded by a greater number of anions.
- In compounds which have low coordination numbers. In compounds with low coordination numbers the attractive forces being less, are easy to overcome so that the cation can easily move into the interstitial site.
- This defect is more common in compounds which have ions of different sizes.
- In compounds where we have highly polarizing cation and an easily polarizable anion.