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JulianA2
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Hi!
I am a freshman in college on my first week of an intro chemistry course. I think the professor may have made a mistake with the software that generates the problem sets, but I'm giving it a shot regardless.
One of the questions is: An alloy with a 1:1 ratio of magnesium and strontium crystallizes in the bcc CsCl structure. The unit-cell edge of MgSr is 390 pm. What is the density of MgSr?
So I looked in my textbook (in the last chapter...) and found an example of how to do this with a fcc unit cell. I followed that example and got the wrong answer, so the amount of atoms in a bcc cell must be different.
Could you please help me with this problem?
Thanks,
Julian
I am a freshman in college on my first week of an intro chemistry course. I think the professor may have made a mistake with the software that generates the problem sets, but I'm giving it a shot regardless.
One of the questions is: An alloy with a 1:1 ratio of magnesium and strontium crystallizes in the bcc CsCl structure. The unit-cell edge of MgSr is 390 pm. What is the density of MgSr?
So I looked in my textbook (in the last chapter...) and found an example of how to do this with a fcc unit cell. I followed that example and got the wrong answer, so the amount of atoms in a bcc cell must be different.
Could you please help me with this problem?
Thanks,
Julian