Engineering
Chemistry
Types of Crystals and Unit Cells
Question

An element has a face-centred cubic (fcc) structure with a cell edge of a. The distance between the centres of two nearest tetrahedral voids in the lattice is :

a

a2

2a

32a

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Solution

Two nearest tetrahedral voids are along one body-diagonal.