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Q.The crystal with a metal deficiency defect is

(a) NaCl
(b) FeO
(c) ZnO
(d) KCl
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Step 1. Metal deficiency defect requires a cation with variable oxidation states, so that oxidising some of the remaining cations to a higher charge can compensate for missing cations.

Step 2. FeO is exactly this case: some Fe2+ ions are missing, and twice as many of the remaining Fe2+ ions are oxidised to Fe3+ to maintain electrical neutrality, giving the experimentally observed formula FexO (x = 0.93-0.98). …

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