Question: (a) Explain, based for example on the quasi-chemical approximation, how the surface free energy is linked with the crystallographic orientation of the surface and answer

(a) Explain, based for example on the quasi-chemical approximation, how the surface free energy is linked with the crystallographic orientation of the surface and answer why a mass of liquid in equilibrium, without the action of gravity (eg in space), would tend to a spherical shape and a crystal would not.

(b) Remembering that copper has a CFC structure, between planes (110), (111) and (100), which would be more stable and why? Which of these planes would oxidize more easily and why?

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