Q.The crystal with a metal deficiency defect is :
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →In FeO, partial oxidation of to creates iron-ion vacancies to preserve overall charge neutrality, giving a non-stoichiometric, metal-deficient crystal ( typically) — a hallmark example of the metal deficiency defect.
If some ions in the FeO lattice are oxidised to , the extra positive charge from each means fewer total cations are needed to balance the fixed number of ions, so some cation sites are left vacant — producing a crystal with fewer metal ions than the stoichiometric formula suggests, i.e. a metal-deficiency defect. NaCl and KCl are classic examples of the Schottky defect (equal numbers of cation and anion vacancies, stoichiometry unchanged), not meta …
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