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Define the term "amorphous". Give a few example of amorphous solids.

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A solid is said to be amorphous if the constituent particles are not arranged in any regular fashion. They may have short range order. For example, glass plastics, amorphous silica.
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MODERN PUBLICATION-SOLID STATE-NCERT FILE SOLVED (NCERT) (TEXTBOOK EXERCISES )
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  2. What makes a glass different from a solid such as quartz? Under what c...

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  3. Classify each of the following solids as ionic, metallic, molecular, n...

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  4. What is meant by the term "coordination number"? b. What is the coor...

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  5. How can you determine the atoic mass of an unknown metal if you know i...

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  6. a. "Stability of a crystal is reflected is reflected in the magnitude ...

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  7. How will you distinguish between the following pairs of terms? a. He...

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  8. How many lattice points are there in one unit cell of each of the foll...

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  9. Explain a. The basic of sumilarities and differences between metalli...

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  10. Calculate the efficiency of packing in case of a metal crystal for a...

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  11. Silver crystallizes in fcc lattic. If the edge length of the cell is 4...

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  12. A cubic solid is made of two elements P and Q . Atoms of Q are at the ...

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  13. Niobium crystallizes in body-centred cubic structure. If the density i...

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  14. If the radius of the octaheral void is r and the radius of the atoms i...

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  15. Copper crystallizer into an fcc lattice with edge length 3.61 xx 10^(8...

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  16. Analysis shows that nickel oxide has the formula Ni(0.98)O(1.00). What...

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  17. What is a semiconductor? Describe the two main types of semiconductor ...

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  18. Non-stoichiometric cuprous oxide. Cu(2)O can be perpared in laboratory...

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  19. Ferric oxide crystalliizes in a hexagonal close-packed array of oxide ...

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  20. Classify each of the following as being either a p-type or an n-type s...

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