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Going supercritical

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The critical point of a fluid is defined as the point beyond which it ceases to exhibit distinct liquid- or gas-like states. A crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour observed by inelastic X-ray scattering suggests subtle effects involving nanoscale fluctuations in the one-phase region above the critical point.

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Figure 1: The emergence of relationships between classical states of matter.

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  1. Paul F. McMillan is in the Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK p.f.mcmillan@ucl.ac.uk,

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  2. H. Eugene Stanley is in the Departments of Physics and Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. hes@bu.edu,

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McMillan, P., Stanley, H. Going supercritical. Nature Phys 6, 479–480 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1711

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