An element crystallises in a face-centred cubic (fcc) unit cell with cell edge a. The distance between the centres of two nearest octahedral voids in the crystal lattice is:

Option 1 - <p>a/2</p>
Option 2 - <p>√2a</p>
Option 3 - <p>a</p>
Option 4 - <p>a/√2</p>
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In FCC octahedral voids are present at the edge centers and body center


Consider a diagonal projected form edge centre passing through the body centre
Distance between octahedral voids = √2a/2 = a/√2

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