Chemistry

The Solid State

Question:

Which of the following solids is not an electrical conductor?

Answer:

Together by London force or dispersion force. This is soft and non-conductor of electricity.
Water is a hydrogen bonded molecular solid in which H and O are held together by polar covalent bond and each water molecular held together by hydrogen bonding. Due to non-ionic nature, they are not electrical conductor.

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The Solid State

Q 1.

Why does white ZnO (s) become yellow upon heating?

Q 2.

 Define the term ‘amorphous’. Give a few examples of amorphous solids.

Q 3.

Explain how vacancies are introduced in an ionic solid when a cation of higher valence is added as an impurity in it.

Q 4.

Non-stoichiometric cuprous oxide, Cu2O can be prepared in laboratory. In this oxide, copper to oxygen ratio is slightly less than 2:1. Can you account for the fact that this substance is a p-type semiconductor?

Q 5.

Classify each of the following solids as ionic, metallic, modular, network (covalent) or amorphous:
(i) Tetra phosphorus decoxide (P4O10) (ii) Ammonium phosphate, (NH4)3P04 (iii) SiC (iv) I2 (v) P4  (vii) Graphite (viii), Brass (ix) Rb (x) LiBr (xi) Si

Q 6.

Why are solids incompressible?

Q 7.

Name the parameters that characterise a unit cell.

Q 8.

Which of the following lattices has the highest packing efficiency (i) simple cubic (ii) body- centred cubic and (iii) hexagonal close-packed lattice?

Q 9.

The value of magnetic moment is zero in the case of antiferromagnetic substances because the domains …
(a) get oriented in the direction of the applied magnetic field
(b) get oriented opposite to the direction of the applied magnetic field
(c) are oppositely oriented with respect to each other without the application of magnetic field
(d) cancel out each other's magnetic moment

Q 10.

In a compound, nitrogen atoms (N) make cubic close packed lattice and metal atoms (M) occupy one-third of the tetrahedral voids present. Determine the formula of the compound formed by M and N?

Q 11.

What is the two-dimensional coordination number of a molecule in a square close-packed layer?

Q 12.

A cubic solid is made of two elements P and Q. Atoms Q are at the corners of the cube and P at the body centre. What is the formula of the compound ? What is the co-ordination number of P and Q?

Q 13.

Cations are present in the interstitial sites in
(a) Frenkel defect (b) Schottky defect
(c) vacancy defect (d) metal deficiency defect .

Q 14.

Which of the following represents correct order of conductivity in solids?
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Q 15.

A perfect crystal of silicon (fig) is doped with some elements as given in the options. Which of these options show n-type semiconductors?
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Q 16.

Why is FeO(s) not formed in stoichiometric composition?

Q 17.

Match the items given in Column I with the items given in Column II.
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Q 18.

A compound forms hexagonal close-packed. structure. What is the total number of voids in  0. 5 mol of it? How many of these are tetrahedral voids?

Q 19.

What is the coordination number in a square close packed structure in two dimensions?  (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 6

Q 20.

Which of the following statements are correct?
(a) Ferrimagnetic substances lose ferrimagnetism on heating and become paramagnetic
(b) Ferrimagnetic’substances do not lose ferrimagnetism on heating and remain ferrimagnetic
(c) Antiferromagnetic substances have domain structure similar to ferromagnetic substances and their magnetic moments are not cancelled by each other
(d) In ferromagnetic substances, all the domains get oriented in the direction of magnetic field and remain as such even after removing magnetic field.

Q 21.

In spite of long range order in the arrangement of particles why are the crystals usually not perfect?

Q 22.

A group 14 element is to be converted into n-type semiconductor by doping it with a suitable impurity. To which group should this impurity belong?

Q 23.

Niobium crystallises in a body centred cubic structure. If density is 8.55 g cm-3, calculate atomic radius of niobium, using its atomic mass 93u.

Q 24.

Why are solids rigid?

Q 25.

What type of stoichiometric defect is shown by:
(i)ZnS (ii)AgBr

Q 26.

How many lattice points are there is one unit cell of each of the following lattices?
(i) Face centred cubic (if) Face centred tetragonal (iii) Body centred cubic

Q 27.

Copper crystallises into a fee lattice with edge length 3.61 x 10-8 cm. Show that the calculated density is in agreement with its measured value of 8.92 gcm-3.

Q 28.

Explain why does conductivity of germanium crystals increase on doping with gallium?

Q 29.

What types of stoichiometric defects are shown by (C.B.S.E. Delhi 2013)
(i) ZnS
(ii) AgBr?

Q 30.

Ionic solids, which have anionic vacancies due to metal excess defect, develop colour. Explain with the help of a suitable example.

Q 31.

 ‘Stability of a crystal is reflected in the magnitude of its melting points’. Comment. Collect melting points of solid water, ethyl alcohol, diethyl ether and methane from a data book. What can you say about the intermolecular forces between these molecules?

Q 32.

 How many lattice points are there is one unit cell of each of the following lattices?
(i) Face centred cubic (if) Face centred tetragonal (iii) Body centred cubic

Q 33.

Ferric oxide crystallises in a hexagonal dose- packed array of oxide ions with two out of every three octahedral holes occupied by ferric ions. Derive the formula of the ferric oxide.

Q 34.

If NaCI is doped with 10-3 mol % SrCl2, what is the concentration of cation vacancies?

Q 35.

Why do solids have a definite volume?

Q 36.

Classify the following as amorphous or crystalline solids: Polyurethane, naphthalene, benzoic acid, Teflon, potassium nitrate, cellophane, polyvinyl chloride, fibreglass, copper

Q 37.

Solid A is a very hard electrical insulator in. solid as well as in molten state and melts at  extremely high temperature. What type of solid is it?

Q 38.

Ionic solids conduct electricity in molten state but not in solid state. Explain

Q 39.

Distinguish between
(i) Hexagonal and monoclinic unit cells
(ii) Face-centred and end-centred unit cells.

Q 40.

What is the two-dimensional coordination number of a molecule in square close-packed layer?

Q 41.

What makes a glass different from a solid such as quartz? Under what conditions could quartz be converted into glass?

Q 42.

Calculate the efficiency of packing in case of a metal crystal for (i) simple cubic, (ii) body centred cubic, and (iii) face centred cubic (with the assumptions that atoms are touching each other).

Q 43.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a crystalline solid?
(a) Definite and characteristic heat of fusion
(b) Isotropic nature
(c) A regular periodically repeated pattern of arrangement of constituent particles in the entire crystal
(d) A true solid

Q 44.

Which of the following solids is not an electrical conductor?

Q 45.

Which of the following statement is not true about the hexagonal close packing?
(a) The coordination number is 12
(b) It has 74% packing efficiency
(c) Tetrahedral voids of the second layer are covered by the spheres of the third layer
(d) In this arrangement, spheres of the fourth layer are exactly aligned with those of the first layer.

Q 46.

In which of the following structure coordination number for cations and anions in the packed structure will be same?
(a) Cl ions form fee lattice and Na+ ions occupy all octahedral voids of the unit cell.
(b) Ca2+ ions form fee lattice and F- ions occupy all the eight tetrahedral voids of the unit cell
(c) O2- ions form fee lattice and Na+ ions occupy all the eight tetrahedral voids of the unit cell
(d) S2- ions form fee lattice and Zn2+ ions go into alternate tetrahedral voids of the unit cell.

Q 47.

Under the influence of electric field, which of the following statements are true about the movement of electrons and holes in a p-type semiconductor?
(a) Electron will move towards the positively charged plate through electron holes
(b) Holes will appear to be moving towards the negatively charged plate
(c) Both electrons and holes appear to move towards the positively charged plate
(d) Movement of electrons is not related to the movement of holes

Q 48.

An excess of potassium ions makes KCl crystals appear violet or Lilac in colour since
(a) some of the anionic sites are occupied by an unpaired electron
(b) some of the anionic sites are occupied by a pair of electrons
(c) there are vacancies at some’anionic sites
(d) F-centres are created which impart colour to the crystals

Q 49.

In which of the following arrangements octahedral voids are formed?
(a) hep (b) bcc (c) simple cubic (d) fee

Q 50.

Frenkel defect is also known as
(a) stoichiometric defect (b) dislocation defect
(c) impurity defect (d) non-stoichiometric defect