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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Radius Ratio

It is the ratio between the radius of cation to radius of anion.

Radius Ratio = rc/ ra

Depending on this we can say the shape of the 1:1 type ionic compounds and also the coordination number.


Sl. No
Co-ordination Number
Radius Ratio
Shape
1
2
> 0.155
2
3
0.155 to 0.225
3
4
0.225 to 0.414
4
4
0.414 to 0.732
5
6
0.414 to 0.732
6
8
0.732 to 1.000

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