Marder 1 (Crystals)

Question 1

What is crystalline order?

Answer 1

simplest arrangement atoms can take ti form a macroscopic solid

Question 2

What makes a compound allotropic?

Answer 2

They have more than 1 crystalline stable form given a pressure and temperature

Question 3

What is a crystal?

Answer 3

A solid where the atoms are arranged in the form of a lattice

Question 4

what is a lattice?

Answer 4

Arrangement of points that repeats a pattern over and over again

Question 5

What is the Bravais lattice?

Answer 5

Is the simplest kind of lattice where the neighborhood of every point in the lattice is the same

Question 6

What is a lattice with a basis?

Answer 6

Bravaiss lattice to which identical assemblies of points have been added to every lattice

Question 7

What is the primitive unit cell?

Answer 7

Small region of space from which the full information of the crystal can be obtained

Question 8

How do you build the Wigner-Seitz cell?

Answer 8

Draw a line of a given point to its closest neighbors and then split those lines with perpendicular lines. the figure resulting of the second set of lines intersecting will provide the cell