Question

What are point defects?

Answer 1

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If defects in a crystal are caused by departure from the regular arrangement in the vicinity of atoms or groups of atoms the imperfections are called point defects.


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Answer 2

Point defects are the one that will occur only once with the single point of the lattice.

Space is not extended to other dimensions.

However, the explicit point defects are not actually defined with any of the strict limits.

There are larger defects as well that are in the dislocation loops.