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Explain how electrical neutrality is maintained in compounds showing Frenkel and Schottky defect.

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 Explain how electrical neutrality is maintained in compounds showing Frenkel and Schottky defect. 

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In compound showing Frenkel defect, ions just get displaced within the lattice, while in compounds showing Schottky defect, equal number of anions and cations are removed from the lattice. Thus, electrical neutrality is maintained in both cases.

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