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In a face centered cubic lattice, atom A occupies the corner positions and atom B occupies the face centered positions. If one atom of B is missing from one of the face centered points, the formula of the compound is

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As the molecule is having FCC structure,therefore let the formula of the compound be AxBy no of atom of A=1/8*8=1 number of atom of B=6*1/2 -1/2=5/2,As one atom is missing and ,where the contribution of each atom in FCC is ½. Thus the formula is A1B5/2 or A2B5

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