Solid solution examples

Answer 1

Solid solution is mixture of two crystalline solids. The mixing is done by combining two solids after melting them into liquids and then cooling the result to form a new solid. Examples such solutions include steel (a combination of carbon and iron), and bronze, which is combination of copper and tin.

Answer 2

Some solid solutions examples are alloys that are a combination of two or more metals. Steel and brass are two of these alloys. Steel is comprised of iron and carbon. Brass is combination of copper and zinc. A solid solution is a homogenous mixture of different substances in solid form.

Answer 3

Choose an alloy in which one kind of particle is much smaller than another one. For example, common steel has iron with carbon dissolved in it.

The carbon atoms rest in the tiny spaces in the lattice of the iron atoms - cubical or face-centered cubical -- and in the tine spaces in which the lattice of iron atoms has been broken, which is a pretty common occurrence.

Hence, the volume of the metal is the same both before and after addition of the carbon.

Something that is not commonly known (except in college Metallurgy and mechanical engineering courses) is that pure, solid metals and semiconductors form crystals just like carbon, salts, aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide, etc., do. These crystals can be hexagonal, tetrahedral, cubical, face-centered-cubic, etc., and like all crystals, they have spaces in them.

Another example of a solid solution would be a lump of gold (atomic number 79) with billions of smaller copper atoms dissolved in it (atomic number 29) and resting in the holes in the lattice of gold atoms.

There are other kinds of alloys in which the two components have atoms that are about the same size. For example, there are lots of different alloys of iron and nickel. In one of these that has about 50% iron and 50% nickel, the iron and nickel atoms alternate in the crystal lattice, and the overall result is a piece of alloy that weighs about the same as pure iron and has about the same volume as a piece of pure iron (or pure nickel). You might call this a solid solution, too, because the atoms are NOT combined chemically with each other, though they do share some electrons with each other. The difference is that they share their valence electrons with all of the other atoms in the lattice, and this is what makes metals good conductors of electricity AND heat.

Answer 4

# brass # bronze # jeweler's gold (anything below 24 carat) # tungsten carbide. # pewter

Answer 5

Solid solutions consist of two types of atoms or molecules that share a crystal lattice. Examples include metal alloys, moist solids, and crystallized salts in their liquid form.

Answer 6

Solid solutions are many alloys (amalgam, brass, bronze) or crystallized compounds mixtures.

Answer 7

potassium permanginate