JEE Main Chemistry question

ChemistryThe Solid StateJEE Main

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The number of tetrahedral voids present in a bcc lattice is .

Answer: 12

Solution

A body-centred cubic unit cell contains 12 tetrahedral voids (located 4 to each of the 6 cube faces, each shared between 2 adjacent unit cells, giving per cell) along with 6 octahedral voids — this is a standard crystallographic result for the

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