U cud just imagine the spheres..........i cant explain exacty.....but there is no such expanation as such, i think
Why are there 2n tetrahedral and n octahedral voids for n lattice points?
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Aditya
·2009-01-14 20:29:09
Anirudh Narayanan
·2009-01-16 07:29:19
Bhaiyyah, i'm totally confused[2]. Can you pls explain again?
sidsgr88 Bora
·2009-01-16 07:37:36
i think i can answer....there are n lattice points soooo....
octahedral voids are present on the edge centres and the body centre so effective no. of atom 12/4 + 1=4
for tetrahedral are present in body diagnols 2 in each sooo
effective no. =2*4=8
now the number of cubes be n soooo
4n and 8n
Lokesh Verma
·2009-01-16 07:43:08
i deleted my own becasue now i am confused and i think i gave a wrong explanation ;)
Anirudh Narayanan
·2009-01-16 07:44:10
Thanx Sidharth[1] and thanx for your time and effort, bhaiyyah.