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Refractory ceramic liquids studied by containerless levitation and synchrotron X-ray scattering reveal an unusual density-driven liquid–liquid phase transition.

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Figure 1: A levitated ceramic liquid sample mounted inside an aerodynamic levitator at the Advanced Photon Source for synchrotron X-ray scattering experiments.
Figure 2: Small-angle X-ray scattering data on levitated Y2O3–Al2O3 melts.

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

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McMillan, P. Levitating liquids. Nature Mater 7, 843–844 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2313

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