The intermetallic compound LiAg crystallizes in a cubic lattice in which lithium and silver atoms have co-ordination number of $8$ . To what crystal class does the unit cell belong?

Simple cubic

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Face-centred cubic

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Body-centred cubic

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Edge-centred cubic

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Solution

The correct option is A Simple cubic
LiAg forms a primitive cubic cell. where ions present at corner froms the Simple cubic crystal structure and ion present at the center occupies cubic hole. Hence, the correct option is A.

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The intermetallic compound LiAg crystallizes in cubic lattice in which both lithium and silver have coordination number of eight.The crystal class is

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4) None of these

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