IB Chemistry Option A: Materials
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IB Chemistry Option A: Materials
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A1 Materials Science Introduction
A2 Metals and Inductively-Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy
A3 Catalysts
A4 Liquid Crystals (LCs)
A5 Polymers
A6 Nanotechnology
A7 Environmental Impact: Plastics
A8 Superconducting Metals and X-ray Crystallography
A8.1 Superconductors
A8.2 The Meissner Effect
A8.3 Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) Theory
A8.4 Type 1 and Type 2 Superconductors
A8.5 Crystal Lattices and Unit Cells
A8.6 Unit Cell Coordination number
A8.7 X-Ray Diffraction
A8.8 Density of Pure metal
A8.9 Using the Ionic Radius to Calculate Density of Metals
A9 Condensation Polymers
A10 Environmental Impact - Heavy Metals
Practice Questions
Answers to Numerical Questions
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A8.9 Using the Ionic Radius to Calculate Density of Metals

First you need to be able to calculate the length of the cell edge.
Figure 8.5 Calculating. the density of metals

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Unless you are talking about a simple cubic lattice, where the cell edge is the diameter or two metal atoms, calculating the density of a metal is tricky. The relationship between the ion radius and the cell edge is shown, but you are unlikely to be asked to work with BCC Or FCC lattices.
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