JEE Main 2015 Chemistry question
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Sodium metal crystallizes in a body centred cubic lattice with a unit cell edge of 4.29 Å. The radius of sodium atom is approximately:
Answer: (2)
Solution
In a bcc lattice the atoms touch along the body diagonal, so .
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