What is the difference between a vacancy and a defect in a solid solution?

[member 392791]

Hello,

I am wondering, what is the difference between a vacancy and a defect in a solid solution? They both have the same arrhenius equation that describes their number ratio with atom sites, but I thought a vacancy is a defect, or is a defect a more broad term than just a vacancy (i.e. vacancy is a defect but defect doesn't necessarily imply vacancy)

Thank you

 

[mfb]

(i.e. vacancy is a defect but defect doesn't necessarily imply vacancy)

Right. There are many defect types, a vacancy is one of them.

 

[madhumathi hk]

how to calculate the equilibrium vacancies in point defect

 

[ZapperZ]

how to calculate the equilibrium vacancies in point defect

I copied your post verbatim and plugged it into Google, and one of the first links I got was this:

http://nptel.ac.in/courses/113108052/module1/lecture6.pdf

Did you even TRY?

Zz.

 

[mfb]

Also, this thread is from 2013.

@madhumathi hk: Google can answer questions like those much faster than forums, where more detailed questions can be discussed.