Assertion :The number of tetrahedral voids is double the number of octahedral voids. Reason: The size of the tetrahedral voids is half of that of the octahedral void.

Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion

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Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion

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Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect

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Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect

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Solution

The correct option is C Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect
The number of tetrahedral voids is double the number of octahedral voids. Thus, in fcc unit cell, there are 4 octahedral and 8 tetrahedral voids.
The size of tetrahedral voids is smaller but not half of that of the octahedral voids.
Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.

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