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Published on: August 14, 2026
Atomic radius of silver is 144.5 pm. The unit cell of silver is a face centred cube. Calculate the density of silver.
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For (fcc) unit cell, atoms touch each other along the face diagonal.
Hence, Atomic radius (R) 
Density 
D = 
; where 
for (fcc) unit cell = 4 , Avagadro’s number 
, Volume of cube ( 
) 
and M (Mol. wt.) of silver = 108,
D 
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