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An octahedron may then form with a radius ratio greater than or equal to 0.414, but as the ratio rises above 0.732, a cubic geometry becomes more stable. This explains why Na + in NaCl with a radius ratio of 0.55 has octahedral coordination, whereas Cs + in CsCl with a radius ratio of 0.93 has cubic coordination.
The radius ratio rule defines a critical radius ratio for different crystal structures, based on their coordination geometry. [1] The idea is that the anions and cations can be treated as incompressible spheres, meaning the crystal structure can be seen as a kind of unequal sphere packing .
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... according to the radius ratio rule, cations in this polymorph will reach their largest apparent radius because the anion ...
In inorganic chemistry, Fajans' rules, formulated by Kazimierz Fajans in 1923, [1] [2] [3] are used to predict whether a chemical bond will be covalent or ionic, and depend on the charge on the cation and the relative sizes of the cation and anion. They can be summarized in the following table:
According to the radius ratio rule, this structure is more likely to be formed if the cation is somewhat smaller than the anion (a cation/anion radius ratio of 0.414 to 0.732). The interatomic distance (distance between cation and anion, or half the unit cell length a ) in some rock-salt-structure crystals are: 2.3 Å (2.3 × 10 −10 m) for ...
For interstitial solid solutions, the Hume-Rothery Rules are: Solute atoms should have a smaller radius than 59% of the radius of solvent atoms. [5] [6] The solute and solvent should have similar electronegativity. [7] Valency factor: two elements should have the same valence.
Ionic radius, r ion, is the radius of a monatomic ion in an ionic crystal structure. Although neither atoms nor ions have sharp boundaries, they are treated as if they were hard spheres with radii such that the sum of ionic radii of the cation and anion gives the distance between the ions in a crystal lattice .
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