What is a berthollide?
Look up ‘Berthollides’ on Google (also known as ‘non-stoichiometric’ compounds. Provide one example of berthollide and explain in your own words why this compound has its non-integral empirical formula.
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Berthollide is a chemical compound that violates the rule of definite proprotions i.e. the elements combined in a non-integer fashion in order to form a compound due to the absence or presence of more numbers of ions of a particular element in the compound
Example of bertholiide : Fe(1-x)S
Iron is very reactive metal and is present in multiple oxidation state of +2 and + 3 (most commonly), the reactivity of Fe leads to the formation of Fe(+3) leading to the space vaccants since Fe is present in +2 oxidation in FeS
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