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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)

  a

b)

c)

 a

d)

  a



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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)

  a

b)

c)

 a

d)

  a

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Answer Key / Explanation : (b) -

In FCC, tetrahedral voids are located on the body diagonal at a distance of  from the

corner. Together they form a smaller cube of edge length 

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