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Lithium chloride has a cubic structure as shown below. If the edge length is 400 pm., then the radii of Cl– ions is

(a) 100pm (b) 200 pm (c) 141.4pm (d) 282.8pm

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For a cube as given, the Cl– ions are at the corners and one each in the face centre i.e. it is a ccp structure.

For a ccp structure 4r– = √2 a, The face diagonal = √2a

On the face diagonal there are only Cl– ions

4r– = √2 a or r– = 1.414 x 400/4 = 141.4 pm

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