Question: Iridium metal, Ir, crystallizes in a face-centered cubic (close-packed) structure. The edge length of the unit cell was found by x-ray diffraction to be 383.9

Iridium metal, Ir, crystallizes in a face-centered cubic (close-packed) structure. The edge length of the unit cell was found by x-ray diffraction to be 383.9 pm. The density of iridium is 22.42 g/cm3. Calculate the mass of an iridium atom. Use Avogadro’s number to calculate the atomic mass of iridium.

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