Q89 · CSIR-NET Chemistry, June 2012

Paper: CSIR-NET June 2012 · Subject: Physical Chemistry · Chapter: Solid State Chemistry · Topic: Solid State Chemistry – General · Marks: 2 · Difficulty: Medium

The structure obtained when all the tetrahedral holes are occupied in a fee structure is of the type

(a)NaCl

(b)CsCl

(c)$\mathrm{CaF}_{2}$

(d)ZnS

Answer

Answer: C ✓ checked by 4AB · confidence high

Explanation

Filling all 2N tetrahedral holes of an fcc lattice gives the fluorite (CaF₂) structure; ZnS fills only half.

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