While this is a science question, again given it is a very specific one (and not one needing research to answer by people who are chemists) i thought of asking it in the OT forum first...!
(As usual for a short story) I am looking a little bit into properties of some types of formations, and more specifically the 'solid solutions', ie formations which are solid yet display some properties of liquids as well (if i read the texts correctly then it seems they have the quality of non-set position of the individual atoms inside the formation).
I am mostly interested in using the properties of the type which apparently is called "omission solid solution", and i read it means that some of the atoms in the bonds get lost, and i read the parallel of that to a solid wall from which small cubical parts are taken away yet it can still stand fine. I read that FeS (sulphur bonded with Iron?) as an example of that happening, and it is noted by the apparent larger amount of sulphur found to be in the mixture than should have been, and theorised this is due to some of the Iron being omitted in that way.
Moreover i am interested in the more general trait of solid solutions (?) in which a material shall contain traces of other elements as well, due to some atoms of theirs taking the position of the regular atoms of the material, due to a number of reasons (ionised state and technical stuff about products of those chemical reactions?).
Ok, here are my questions...: (bare with me, cause i have almost forgotten all the chemistry i learned in highschool...)
1) Solid solutions (and the phenomena mentioned in the OP) are also called 'Mixed crystals"? And that crystallic form has stable symmetrical relation which is what forces those phenomena to occur? (atoms or ions getting omitted or inserted or placed elsewhere to retain the crystalic symmetry?)
2) Can someone give a detailed-ish account of how "in an ionic structure there are no individually-positioned molecules, and the structure exists as a potentially infinitely extending crystalic matrix; any ion in the structure can be replaced by any other ion without causing structural changes".
Thanks, and again sorry for any possible mistakes in comprehension on my part
(As usual for a short story) I am looking a little bit into properties of some types of formations, and more specifically the 'solid solutions', ie formations which are solid yet display some properties of liquids as well (if i read the texts correctly then it seems they have the quality of non-set position of the individual atoms inside the formation).
I am mostly interested in using the properties of the type which apparently is called "omission solid solution", and i read it means that some of the atoms in the bonds get lost, and i read the parallel of that to a solid wall from which small cubical parts are taken away yet it can still stand fine. I read that FeS (sulphur bonded with Iron?) as an example of that happening, and it is noted by the apparent larger amount of sulphur found to be in the mixture than should have been, and theorised this is due to some of the Iron being omitted in that way.
Moreover i am interested in the more general trait of solid solutions (?) in which a material shall contain traces of other elements as well, due to some atoms of theirs taking the position of the regular atoms of the material, due to a number of reasons (ionised state and technical stuff about products of those chemical reactions?).
Ok, here are my questions...: (bare with me, cause i have almost forgotten all the chemistry i learned in highschool...)
1) Solid solutions (and the phenomena mentioned in the OP) are also called 'Mixed crystals"? And that crystallic form has stable symmetrical relation which is what forces those phenomena to occur? (atoms or ions getting omitted or inserted or placed elsewhere to retain the crystalic symmetry?)
2) Can someone give a detailed-ish account of how "in an ionic structure there are no individually-positioned molecules, and the structure exists as a potentially infinitely extending crystalic matrix; any ion in the structure can be replaced by any other ion without causing structural changes".
Thanks, and again sorry for any possible mistakes in comprehension on my part
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