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What Is the Structure of a Liquid?

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Various methods of structure determination for liquids are considered. It is shown that the most fruitful technique is using the distribution functions. This is the only technique providing the calculation of the thermodynamic parameters of a liquid from the functions found in a numerical experiment.

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Martynov, G.A. What Is the Structure of a Liquid?. Journal of Structural Chemistry 43, 507–514 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020305620058

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