random close-packing model

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amorphous solids

  • Figure 1: The state of atomic motion.
    In amorphous solid: Models of atomic scale structures

    …as polystyrene, and (3) the random close-packing model, applicable to metallic glasses, such as Au0.8Si0.2 gold-silicon. These are the names in conventional use for the models. Although each of them contains the word random, the well-defined short-range order means that they are not random in the sense that the gas…

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