The Place of Atomic Order in the Physics of Solids and in Metallurgy

摘要: Order is ubiquitous in the world of materials, as disorder. Both concepts are thoroughly ambiguous, and highly important, like “democracy” or “explanation”. This chapter devoted to just one manifestations order: it variously named atomic order, chemical spatial order compositional but here only first these alternative terms will be used. To put matter anthropomorphically, often is, this kind stems from a preference by atoms have unlike nearest neighbours.