Abstract
The liquid state of matter is of great practical importance. The arrangement of atoms in a liquid is more disordered than in a crystal, and can be studied by the scattering of X-rays. This disordered arrangement is described statistically by the pair correlation function g(r), which gives the relative probability of an atom having a neighbour at a distance r.
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Rao, K.R. The liquid state. Reson 2, 54–59 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02836037
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