Although crystalline solids have short range as well as long range order in the arrangement of their constituent particles, yet crystals are not perfect. Usually a solid consists of an aggregate of large number of small crystals. These small crystals have defects in them. This happens when crystallisation process occurs at fast or moderate rate. Single crystals are formed when the process of crystallisation occurs at extremely slow rate. Even these crystals are not free of defects. The defects are basically irregularities in the arrangement of constituent particles. Broadly speaking, the defects are of two types, namely, point defects and line defects. Point defects can be classified into three types : (i) stoichiometric defects (ii) impurity defects and (iii) non-stoichiometric defects. These are even classified into many such as Frenkel defect, Schottky defect, metal excess defect and so on.

Which crystal among the below shows metal deficiency defect?

FeO

Metal deficiency defect arises due to the missing of cation from its lattice site and presence of higher charged cation in the adjacent site. Thus, the metals with variable valancy shows this defect.