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The Solid State

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171. Explain the following with suitable examples:
Ferrimagnetism

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172. Explain the following with suitable examples:
Piezoelectric effect (or pressure electricity)

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173. Explain the following with suitable examples:
Antifluorite structure

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174. Give reasons for the following:
Molecular solids are generally soft and easily compressible.

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175. Give reasons for the following:
The energy required to vapourise one mole of copper is smaller than that of energy required to vapourise one mole of diamond.

The bonding have great influence on the any substance. Copper is a metallic solid having metallic bonds while diamond is a covalent solid having covalent bonds. Metallic bonds are weaker than covalent bonds thus lesser amount of energy is required to break metallic bonds than covalent bonds.

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176. Give reasons for the following:
All metals have metallic bonds but some metals are soft and having low melting points and some are hard and having high melting points.

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177. Give reasons for the following:
Covalent crystals like diamond and silicon carbide are quite hard and difficult to break.

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178. Give reasons for the following:
Ionic solids, inspite of being made up of ions, do not conduct electricity.

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Fill In the Blanks

179. A liquid which is permanently supercooled is frequently called a _____

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180. The smallest portion of a crystal which has the structure characteristic of space lattice is called the__________.

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