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A statistical thermodynamics of point defects is constructed that permits taking account of the influence of vacancies on both the thermodynamical and structural properties without involving any experimental information.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 244–250, February, 1983.
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Bruk-Levinson, É.T., Zakharov, A.V. Statistical thermodynamics of schottky defects in molecular and ionic crystals. Journal of Engineering Physics 44, 166–171 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00826142
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00826142