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THE view that the arrangement of atoms or o*o molecules in a liquid is not entirely random may now be considered well established. In other words, the liquid possesses certain characteristics to which the term ‘structure’ can be properly applied. This does not mean that a liquid possesses anything so definite as a ‘lattice structure’, and any reference to a ‘liquid lattice’ may be very misleading, if not, indeed, devoid of meaning. It would perhaps be allowable to refer to the 'ghost of a lattice. Before going on to consider liquid metals themselves, it will be as well to deal first with the general question of the structure of liquids.
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LATIN, A. STRUCTURE OF LIQUID METALS. Nature 148, 616–618 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148616a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148616a0