Chemistry & Chemical Reactivity
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Chapter 12, Problem 38GQ
Tungsten crystallizes in the unit cell shown here.
Unit cell for tungsten
- (a) What type of unit cell is this?
- (b) How many tungsten atoms occur per unit cell?
- (c) If the edge of the unit cell is 316.5 pm, what is the radius of a tungsten atom? (Hint: The W atoms touch each other along the diagonal line from one comer of the unit cell to the opposite comer of the unit cell.)
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