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RECENT X-ray measurements on liquid mercury–thallium alloys have given some evidence for ordering at compositions corresponding approximately to the solid-state compound Hg5Tl2 1. These results, obtained at 17° C., some 3° C. above the melting point of Hg5Tl2, are unfortunately inconclusive due to the uncertainty introduced by the extensive corrections necessary in the analysis of diffraction data. In the present work, evidence for the existence of ordering has been obtained by accurate determinations of the partial molar entropy of thallium, SMTl.
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WARD, R., WILSON, J. Ordering in Liquid Mercury–Thallium Alloys containing 25–35 Atomic per cent Thallium. Nature 182, 334–335 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182334a0
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