What are interstitial compounds? Why are such compounds well known for transition

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Transition metals are large in size and contain lots of interstitial sites. Transition elements can trap atoms of other elements (that have small atomic size), such as $H , C , N ,$ in the interstitial sites of their crystal lattices. The resulting compounds are called interstitial compounds.

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