Calcium crystallizes in a face-centered cubic unit cell at room temperature that has an edge length of

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Calcium crystallizes in a face-centered cubic unit cell at room temperature that has an edge length of 5.588 Å.

(a) Calculate the atomic radius of a calcium atom. 

(b) Calculate the density of Ca metal at this temperature.

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Chemistry The Central Science

ISBN: 978-0134414232

14th Edition

Authors: Theodore Brown, H. LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward, Matthew Stoltzfus

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