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It is possible to produce a perfect crystalline solid that does not contain any vacancies.

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NO, it is not possible to produce a crystalline solid that does not have any vacancies.
It is impossible to produce a solid material that is completely free of defects. Many of the properties of materials are very sensitive to these imperfections and it leads to changes in the expected behavior of a substance.
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