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Structural Order

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Order and disorder are rather complex concepts with various and sometimes contrary exceptions and shades and this makes it somewhat difficult to give them a generally valid definition. The dictionary defines order as “the arrangement of objects in position, or of events in time” or, more generally, “the manner in which one thing succeeds another” [2.1].

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Ossi, P.M. (2003). Structural Order. In: Disordered Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05158-0_2

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