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o Secondary bonding
• Primary bonds:
• Primary bonds are inter atomic bonds in which electro static force holds the atoms
together.
• Secondary bonds:
• Secondary bonds are inter molecular bonds in which the weak forces holds the
molecules together
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1. Ionic Bond:
1. It is also known as electro valent bond
2. It is formed between atoms of metals and nonmetals
3. An ionic bond is formed when one or more electrons, from the outer most shell of one
atom, are transformed to the outermost shell of another atom
4. The electro static attraction b/w the oppositely charged ions forms the ionic bond
5. Following are the two conditions are necessary for the bond formation :
1. The atom which loses the electron should have low ionization energy. It means that a
small amount of energy is requires to remove the electron from its outermost energy level
2. The atom which gains the electron should have high electron affinity. It means that the
atom should be able to readily accept an electron from its outermost energy level
➢ The atomic no of Na is 11 and Cl is 17 .the atomic structure of both Na and Cl atoms are
shown in fig. Thus we see that the Na atom has 1electron in its outer most energy level and Cl
atom has 7 electrons in its outer most energy level
➢ The Na atom has tendency to lose its electron in its outermost energy level to have a stable
configuration. more over the Cl atom has a tendency to accept one electron (lost by Na
atom) in its outer most energy level to have a stable electronic configuration of argon
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Covalent bond:
➢ It exist due to the electrostatic force of attraction b/w atoms which share the electron
pairs to form a covalent bond
➢ It is formed b/w similar or dissimilar atoms
Ex: O2, CO2, C2H6, H2O, Sic
Non Polar
- bonded atoms that share e-’s equally
- same atoms bonded
ex. Cl – Cl: Cl2
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Polar
- bonded atoms that do not share e-’s equally
- different atoms bonded
H
ex. H – N – H: NH3
Properties of ionic solids:
✓ These are bad conductors of electricity
✓ These compounds are low melting & boiling temp
✓ These are not soluble in water ,but are soluble in organic components such as benzene,
toluene etc
3. Metallic bond:
A bond formed by the attraction between electron cloud and positively charged ion (cation) of
same or different metals
2. Secondary Bond
1. Dispersion bond:
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• But due to mutual repulsion, electrons disperse in asymmetrical manner the displacement
of positive and negative charges, and forms a dipole (pair of two opposite and equal
charges).
• These dipoles oscillate and influence each other resulting in a weak attraction force
which forms the dispersion bond.
2. Dipole bond:
• Unequal sharing of electrons between the atoms results that the center of positive and
negative charges does not coincide and the electrical dipole (molecule with one end
positive and other end negative).
• These dipoles provide molecular attraction resulting in the formation of dipole bond.
• Dipole bonds are weaker than ionic bonds but stronger than dispersion bond.
Example- formation of hydrogen chloride (HCL).
In HCL, molecule region near the hydrogen nucleus is highly positive and opposite region
near the chlorine nucleus is negative.
Attractive between the regions results dipole bond.
3. Hydrogen bond:
• Hydrogen bond results between hydrogen atom and any other elctro-negative atoms such
as oxygen and nitrogen.
Example-
In water molecules two H2 ends of the molecule being slightly positive (i.e. from
proton) relative to the oxygen atom (electron).
Each water molecule form a dipole.
Hydrogen bond occurs as a result of electro-static attraction between these molecule from
a dipole.
BOND ENERGY OR BINDING ENERGY: It is defined as the energy to break the bond or to
separate the atom is known as “bond energy”
➢ It is expressed in kj/mole
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BOND LENGTH:
➢ The bond length may be defined as equilibrium separation (r) b/w the centre-to-centre of
two bonding atoms.
➢ The force of attraction b/w the two bonding atoms, smaller will be the equilibrium
separation and hence smaller the bond length.
➢ The primary bond are more stronger than the secondary bond, then the bond length of
primary bond are smaller than those of secondary bonds
➢ The bond length of primary bond are in the range of 1-2 AO,for secondary bonds of 2-5
AO
F
F
r
Fig: bond length
Crystallization of solids:
➢ crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituent atoms, molecules or ions
etc are arranged in an ordered pattern extending in all three dimensions. which are
acquired under the action of inter molecular forces.
➢ Crystals are also known as grains
➢ The boundary separating the two adjacent grains is called grain boundary
➢ The scientific study of crystals and crystal formation is known as “crystallography.”
➢ The process of crystal formation via mechanisms of crystal growth is called
“Crystallization or solidification.”
➢ All materials are crystalline in nature.
➢ Single Crystals: Crystals can be single crystals where the whole solid is one crystal.
Then it has a regular geometric structure with flat faces.
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➢ Polycrystalline Materials:
o A solid can be composed of many crystalline grains, not aligned with each other.
It is called polycrystalline.
❖ The grains can be more or less aligned with respect to each other. Where they meet is
called a grain boundary.
➢ Crystalline Solids:-
❖ In crystalline substances the atoms are arranged in regular pattern then it’s called
crystalline solids.
❖ the distance b/w any two successive toms is equal
Example: Cu, Al, Fe etc
Space lattice: It differs from a crystal structure in that a space lattice is an array of points
in three-dimensional space in which every point has surroundings identical to the every other
point in the array. Where as a crystal structure is an arrangement of atoms in crystal.
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Or
The array of lattice points in three-dimensional space is called space lattice.
Unit cell : It is the smallest portion of the crystal which shows the arrangement and position of
atoms in a crystal structure
α, β, γ-interfacial angles
Primitive cell: It is defined as a unit cell which possesses lattice points at its corners only
Example: A simple cubic cell
Non-Primitive cell: The unit cell which contain more than one lattice point, are called Non-
primitive cell
Ex: body centered and face centered cubic structures contain more than one lattice point per unit
cell
❖ If no of lattice points per unit cell are two the unit cell is called doubly primitive cell.
❖ If no of lattice points per unit cell are three or four the unit cell is called triply primitive
cell or quadruply primitive cell
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r=a/2
Volume of atoms in the unit cell =n.4/3 πr3
= 1X4/3 π (a/2) 3 = πa3 /6
Volume of unit cell = a3
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P.f is the about 52% and hence this structure is loosely packed,
Polonium is the only element which shows this type of structure,
R
a
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AE = √2a
From le AEF, AF2 =AE2+EF2
(4r) 2 = 2a2 + a 2
16r2 =3a2
a=4r/√3
We know that;
Volume of the unit cell = a3 = (4r/√3)3
Volume of the atom in the unit cell = n.4/3 πr3
= 2x4/3 πr3
In FCC structure, there are eight corner of the cube occupied by eight atoms, and six
atoms occupy the centre of six of the cube atoms
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16r2 =2 a2
We know that;
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Area of basal plane is the area ABDEFG.this area is six times the equilateral triangle ABC
Area of ABC = 1/ 2 x b x h
= 1/2 x a x a sin 600
= 1/2 x a2 x sin 600
Packing factor (p.f):= Volume of the atom in the unit cell/ Volume of the unit cell
= π a /3xc xsin600
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CRYSTALLIZATION OF METALS
➢ Crystallization or solidification is the process of transition from the liquid state. When the
molten metal is cooled, the whole mass does not solidify instantaneously.
It comprises two steps
GRAIN
Solidified metal containing many crystals is called polycrystalline metals. The crystals in
polycrystalline metals are of irregular shape and are called grains.
GRAIN BOUNDARIES
Or
A grain boundary may be defined as the region b/w two adjacent grains
The grain size expressed in terms of number of grains per unit area or volume
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➢ The grain size of the metal strongly effects its mechanical properties
➢ Metals and alloys are stronger if the grain size is reduced there fore every effort is
made to produce structure with fine grains
➢ Metals with fine grain structure possess high strength and hardness also they
possesses high fatigue strength and toughness (i.e, resistance to impact).
➢ Metals with coarse grain structure possesses less tough and less hard but exhibit
better creep resistance
➢ Coarse grain structure gives high ductility good machinability and formability but
decrease the hardenability
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• Straight lines, all of the same length are drawn through several photomicrographs that
shoe the grain structure.
• The line length is then divided by an average of no.of grains intersected, taken over
all the line segments.
• The average grain diameter is found by dividing this result by the linear
magnifications of the photomicrographs.
To each assigned a number, the smaller the grains.
A specimen must be properly of 100x.
Grain size is expressed as the grain size no of the chart that most nearly matches the
grains in the micrograph.
Thus, a relatively simple and convenient visual determination of grain size number is
possible.
Grain size number is used extensively in the specification of steels.
IMPERFECTIONS IN CRYSTALS
The perfectly regular crystal structures that have been considered upto now are called ideal
crystals in which atoms are arranged in a regular way.
In actual crystals, however, imperfections or defects are always present and their nature and
effects are very important in understanding the properties of crystals.
These imperfections affect the properties of crystals such as mechanical strength, chemical
reactions, electrical properties etc. to a great extent.
Crystal defects are classified as :
• Volume defect
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1. Point defects:
Point defects are imperfect point like regions in a crystal. The size of a point defect is one or two
atomic diameters.
These defects are completely local in effect, e.g.,a vacant lattice.
Point imperfections are always present in crystals and their presence results in a decrease in the
free energy.
The point defects may created as follows:
• By thermal fluctuations
In schottky defect the removal of positive ion must be counter balanced by the removal of
negative ion in order to maintain neutrality.
The pair of vacancies caused by removal of positive ion and negative ion is called
schottky defect.
3. Interstitialcy
It is formed when an extra atom is inserted into the lattice at a normally unoccupied site.
This results in atomic distortion.
The foreign atom may form added alloying agent or simply an impurity.
The vacancy and interstitialcy are therefore, inverse phenomena.
4. Frenkel defect
If a ion displaced from the normal lattice point to an interstial site, then the defect is
known as frankel defect.
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The interstitials and frankel defects are less in number than vacancies and schottky
defects, because additional energy is required to force the atom into the new position.
2. Line defects:
➢ A linear disturbance of the atomic arrangement, which can move very easily on the slip
plane through the crystal is known as dislocation.
➢ This dislocation may be caused during growth of crystal form a melt or form a vapour or
they may occur during a slip.
➢ This defect is created along a line which is also the boundary between the slipped and
unslipped regions of the crystal. This defect is common called a “dislocation” and the
boundary as the “dislocation line”.
• Screw dislocation
1. Edge dislocation
• The displacement distance for atoms around the dislocation is called the
“BURGER VECTOR”(b). This vector is at right angle to the edge dislocation.
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2. Screw dislocation
➢ In screw dislocation the atoms are displaced in two separate planes perpendicular to
each other.
➢ The lattice points trace a helical path around the dislocation, therefore it is called
“screw dislocation”.
➢ A screw dislocation has its displacements of burger’s vector parallel to the linear defect
but there is a distortion of the plane.
➢ The displacements of the atoms from their original position in the crystal is described
by the equation:
➢ r = bθ/2π (spiral ramp)
▪ where, r= the displacement along the dislocation line,
➢ θ = the angle measured from some axis perpendicular to the dislocation line.
➢ The following dislocation of a screw dislocation are of great importance:
➢ Plastic deformation is possible under low stress, without breaking the continuity of the
lattice.
➢ The force required to form and move a screw dislocation is probably somewhat greater
than that required to initiate an edge dislocation.
➢ Screw dislocation causes distortion of a considerable distance from the centre of the
line and takes the form of spiral distortion of the planes.
➢ Dislocation of both types (combinations of edge and screw) are closely associated with
crystallization as well as deformation
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3. Surface defects:
Surface defects are the two dimensional regions in a crystal. They arise from a change in the
stacking of atomic planes on across a boundary.
They are the following two types:
• External defects
• Internal defects
1. External defects
• The external type is just what its name implies, the defects or imperfections
represented by a boundary.
• The external surface of the material is an imperfection itself, because the atomic
bonds do not extend beyond it.
• The surface atoms have neighbours on one side only, while the atoms inside the
crystal have neighbours on either side of them.
• Since these surface atoms are not entirely surrounded by others, they possess
higher energy than those of internal atoms.
2. Internal defects
a) Grain boundaries:
• Grain boundary is a narrow region between two grains of about two to few atomic
diameters in width, and is the region of atomic mismatch between adjacent grains.
• Atoms are arranged less regularly at the grain boundary. This produce less
efficient packing of the atoms at the boundary.
• Thus the atoms along the grain boundary have a higher energy than those within
the grains.
• If the mismatch is more than 10-150, the grain boundary is known as high angle
grain boundary.
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• The misfit in the orientation of the two grains (one on each side of the
boundary) is accommodated by a perturbation of the regular arrangement
of crystals in the boundary region.
• Fig shows some vertical atomic planes termination in the boundary and
each termination is represented by an edge dislocation.
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b b
D=
2 sin
2
for q very small)
where b is the Burgers vector.
• For such a case, becomes so large that the dislocations are separated by one
or two atomic spacing;
• the dislocation core energy becomes important and the linear elasticity
does not hold.
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Twin Boundary: when the boundaries in which the atomic arrangement on one side of the
boundary is some what mirror image of the arrangement of atoms of other side, the defect is
known twin boundary
4. volume defects:
• the volume defects are caused due to coglomarations of vacancies in a small region
within crystal or the presence of foreign atoms large sizes compared on atomic scale.
• The accumulation of vacancies produces voids, while the foreign atoms produce
dissymmetry within crystals.
• Bulk or volume defects are normally introduced during processing processing and
fabrication steps.
THEORY OF DISLOCATION
• These arise from misplacement of bonds the atoms in a part of the plane of a crystal and
are considered to be weak centres.
• They are instrumental in affecting the breaking stress and plastic and chemical properties
of crystals.
• It is believed that dislocations originate mainly when a crystal is stressed, but some may
be produced during the solidification of the metal, due to impurity atoms and thermal
vibrations.
• In good crystals the normal density of dislocation lines is around 108/cm2 where as in
deformed crystals it may be as high as 102/cm2.
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IMPORTANT TERMS
Example- Cu-Al system contains compounds CuAl and CuAl2 and therefore, all
compositions can be expressed by the molecular species of Cu and Al and hence it
is two component system i.e. binary system.
Alloy:
Alloy is mixture of two or more elements having metallic properties. The element present
in the largest proportions is a metal and others can be metals or non-metals.
The element which is present in the largest amount is called as the base metal or parent
metal or solvent and other elements are called as alloying elements or solute.
Constitution:
• The constitution of an alloy is described by
• the phases present
• the weight fraction of each phase
• the composition of each phase
• The equilibrium constitution is when the alloy has no further tendency to change at a
given temperature and pressure
ALLOYING ELEMENTS
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The elements deliberately added to the steel in order to modify its properties are called alloying
elements.
1. Based on their relation with carbon, alloying elements may classified as:
These elements may cause the breakdown of cementile and lead to the presence of
graphite in the alloy. This result is a decrease in the strength and hardness.
These elements may form stable, hard carbides, and if they are in appropriate
form (fine carbide particles) increases the strength and hardness
2. Based on their effect on critical points, alloying elements may be classified as:
They arise A4 point and lower A3 point. Thus they increase the range of stability
of austenite.
They lowers A4 point and rise A3 point. Thus they increase the range of stability
of ferrite.
Necessity of alloying:
Alloying elements are added to achieve the properties suitable for service conditions. The
reasons for alloying may be one or more of the following.
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SOLID SOLUTION
A solid solution is formed when two metals are completely soluble in solid state and also
completely soluble in liquid state.
In other words, when homogeneous mixture of two or more kinds of atoms (metals) occur in the
solid state, they are known as a solid solutions.
o it means the atoms of B element i.e solute are substituted at the atomic sizes of A
element i.e solvent.
▪ Regular or ordered
▪ Random or disordered
o Au-Cu solid solution shows ordered structure upto 4000C and disordered structure
at high temperature.
o Complete regularity through the structure is possible only when two metals are
mixed in some proportion like 1:1, 3:1 etc.
o Substitutional solid solution formation is favored if the atomic sizes of two metals
are nearly equal.
o Ordered substitutional solid solution alloys in general are hard and require more
energy for plastic deformation than disordered substitutional solid solution alloys.
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o This type of solid solution formation is favored when the atomic size of B is very
much small as compared to the atomic size of A.
o The elements which can form interstitial solid solution with iron are carbon,
boron, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen.
o Soft
o Ductile
o Malleable
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o Pressed or worked
In formation of solid solutions, the solubility limit of solute in the solvent is governed by
certain factors. These factors are known as hume-rothery rules of solid solubility. They
are as below:
o If the atomic sizes of solute and solvent differ by less than 15%, it is said to have
a favorable size factor for solid solution formation.
o The greater the chemical affinity of two metals, the more restricted is their solid
solubility and greater is the tendency of formation of a compound.
o A metal of higher valency can dissolve only a small amount of a lower valency
metal.
o While the lower valency metal may have good solubility for the higher valency
metal.
For continuous solid solubility, atomic size difference should preferably be less than 8%
with other factors favorable.
• When an alloying element (solute) is added to a given metal (solvent) in such an amount
that the limit of solid solubility exceed, a second phase appears with the solid solution.
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• These intermediate phases differ in composition as well as crystal structure from the
parent metals and hence their properties also different.
• These phases may have narrow or wide ranges of homogeneity and may or may not have
simple chemical formula.
• Some intermediate phases have a fixed composition and they are called intermetallic
compounds
• In general intermetallic compounds are hard, brittle and have high melting points.
• The intermediate phases in which the ratio of number of free electrons to the number of
atoms is constant are called electron compounds and they exhibit similar characteristics.
Example- β brass in Cu-Zn alloy system is disorder between 453 and 4700C and order at
a lower temperature.
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