What is the volume of 1 mole of a crystalline solid having unit cell edge length $16 \times 10^{-8}…

What is the volume of 1 mole of a crystalline solid having unit cell edge length $16 \times 10^{-8} \mathrm{~cm}$, if it's unit cell contains 24 molecules?
  1. $102 \cdot 7 \mathrm{~cm}^{3} \mathrm{~mol}^{-1}$
  2. $404 \cdot 0 \mathrm{~cm}^{3} \mathrm{~mol}^{-1}$
  3. $159 \cdot 3 \mathrm{~cm}^{3} \mathrm{~mol}^{-1}$
  4. $142 \cdot 1 \mathrm{~cm}^{3} \mathrm{~mol}^{-1}$

Solution

$16 \times 10^{-8} \mathrm{~cm}$ $a=16 \times 10^{-8}$ cme unit cell $=a^{3}=\left(16 \times 10^{-8}\right)^{3}$ Volume of one unit cellat $=4096 \times 10^{-24} \mathrm{~cm}^{3}$ volume of 24 molecules $=4096 \times 10^{-24} \mathrm{~cm}^{3}$ $\therefore$ Volume of 1 molecule $=\frac{4096 \times 10^{-24}}{24}=170.67 \times 10^{-24} \mathrm{~cm}^{3}$ $\begin{aligned} \therefore \text { Volume of } 1 \text { mole of a crystalline solid } &=170.67 \times 10^{-24} \times 6.022 \times 10^{23} \\ &=1027.77 \times 10^{-1} \end{aligned}$

Asked in: MHT CET 2020 (15 Oct Shift 1)

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