It is demonstrated that the structure of a liquid metal is formed according to the best space utilization principle by two fluctuations with opposite atomic densities: clusters with dense packing and absolutely chaotic packing. Their ratio 0.65/0.35 for the packing factor 0.44–0.47 is found by an analysis of the bulk characteristics, melting entropy, and electronic subsystem at the melting temperature.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 109–113, May, 2015.
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Filippov, E.S. Fluctuation-Cluster Model of a Liquid Metal. Russ Phys J 58, 705–710 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-015-0554-1
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