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 Solid State Set-1
1. The crystalline solids are:

A. Enantiotropic
B. anisotropic
C. Atropic
D. Isotropic

Answer: B

2: Face centered and body centered unit cell are types of

A. Centred unit cell.

B. Primitive unit cell.
C. End centred unit cell.
D. Non centred unit cell.

Answer: A

3: z for a body centred unit cell is

A. 4
B. 1
C. 8
D. 2

Answer: D

4. How many atoms are present in a face centred cubic unit cell?

A. 4 atoms
B. 3 atoms
C. 2 atoms
D. 6 atoms

Answer: A

5. The arrangement of spheres present in hexagonal close packing is:

A. AABB
B. ABCABC
C. ABAB
D. AAA

Answer: C

6.Which of the following conditions favours the existence of a substance in the solid state?

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A. High temperature
B. Low temperature
C. High thermal energy
D. Weak cohesive forces

Answer: B

7.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

Answer: B

8.Which of the following is an amorphous solid?

A. Graphite (C)
B. Quartz glass (SiO2)
C. Chrome alum
D. Silicon carbide (SiC)

Answer: B

9. Which of the following is true about the value of refractive index of quartz glass?

A. Same in all directions

B. Different in different directions
C. Cannot be measured
D. Always zero

Answer: A

10. Which of the following statement is not true about amorphous solids?

A. On heating they may become crystalline at certain temperature.

B. They may become crystalline on keeping for long time.
C. Amorphous solids can be moulded by heating.
D. They are anisotropic in nature.

Answer: D

11.The sharp melting point of crystalline solids is due to ___________.

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A. a regular arrangement of constituent particles observed over a short distance in the crystal
lattice.
B. a regular arrangement of constituent particles observed over a long distance in the crystal
lattice.
C. same arrangement of constituent particles in different directions.
D. different arrangement of constituent particles in different directions.

Answer: B

12.Iodine molecules are held in the crystals lattice by ________________.

A. london forces
B. dipole-dipole interactions
C. covalent bonds
D. coulombic forces

Answer: A

13.Which of the following is a network solid?

A. SO2 (Solid)
B. I2
C. Diamond
D. H2O (Ice)

Answer: C

14. Which of the following solids is not an electrical conductor?

(A) Mg (s) (B) TiO (s) (C) I2 (s) (D) H2O (s)

A. (A) only
B. (B) Only
C. (C) and (D)
D. (B), (C) and (D)

Answer: C

15.Which of the following is not the characteristic of ionic solids?

A. Very low value of electrical conductivity in the molten state.

B. Brittle nature.
C. Very strong forces of interactions.
D. Anisotropic nature.

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Answer: A

16.Graphite is a good conductor of electricity due to the presence of ___________.

A. lone pair of electrons

B. free valence electrons
C. cations
D. anions

Answer: B

17.Which of the following oxides behaves as conductor or insulator depending upon temperature?

A. TiO
B. SiO2
C. TiO3
D. MgO

Answer: C

18.Which of the following oxides shows electrical properties like metals?

A. SiO2
B. MgO
C. SO2(s)
D. CrO2

Answer: D

19.The lattice site in a pure crystal cannot be occupied by ____________.

A. molecule
B. ion
C. electron
D. atom

Answer: C

20.Graphite cannot be classified as ______________.

A. conducting solid
B. network solid
C. covalent solid
D. ionic solid

Answer: D

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21.Cations are present in the interstitial sites in ____________.

A. Frenkel defect
B. Schottky defect
C. Vacancy defect
D. Metal deficiency defect

Answer: A

22.Schottky defect is observed in crystals when ____________.

A. some cations move from their lattice site to interstitial sites.

B. equal number of cations and anions are missing from the lattice.
C. some lattice sites are occupied by electrons.
D. some impurity is present in the lattice.

Answer: B

23.Which of the following is true about the charge acquired by p-type semiconductors?

A. positive
B. neutral
C. negative
D. depends on concentration of p impurity

Answer: B

24.To get a n-type semiconductor from silicon, it should be doped with a substance with valence .

A. 2
B. 1
C. 3
D. 5

Answer: D

25.The Total number of tetrahedral voids in the face centred unit cell is ____________.

A. 6
B. 8
C. 10
D. 12

Answer: B

26.Which of the following point defects are shown by AgBr(s) crystals?

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(A) Schottky defect

(B) Frenkel defect

(C) Metal excess defect

(D) Metal deficiency defect

A. (A) and (B)

B. (C) and (D)
C. (A) and (C)
D. (B) and (D)

Answer: A

27.In which pair most efficient packing is present?

A. hcp and bcc

B. hcp and ccp
C. bcc and ccp
D. bcc and simple cubic cell

Answer: B

28.The percentage of empty space in a body centred cubic arrangement is _______________.

A. 74
B. 68
C. 32
D. 26

Answer: C

29.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.

Answer: D

30.In which of the following structures coordination number for cations and anions in the packed
structure will be same?

A. Cl– ion form fcc lattice and Na+ ions occupy all octahedral voids of the unit cell.

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B. Ca2+ ions form fcc lattice and F– ions occupy all the eight tetrahedral
C. O2- ions form fcc lattice and Na+ ions occupy all the eight tetrahedral voids of the unit cell.
D. S2- ions form fcc lattice and Zn2+ ions go into alternate tetrahedral voids of the unit cell.

Answer: A

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