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As was shown in the previous chapter, many solids are composed of pseudospherical particles forming close-packed assemblies. The free space in such an arrangement amounts to about 26% of the total volume. Let us now see what happens when we melt such a solid, e.g., copper. Experiment shows that its volume increases by 3%. More specifically, it is the free space that increases from 26 to 29%. The atoms will now have some room to budge from their proper places, and so the ideal order of the parent crystal is destroyed.
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Kitaigorodskiy, A.I., Chomet, S. (1967). Elements of Order in Disorder. In: Chomet, S. (eds) Order and Disorder in the World of Atoms. The Heidelberg Science Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7559-7_3
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