Liquid Phase Metal-Non Metal Transition In Carbon
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Physics and Chemistry of Liquids
- Vol. 8 (4), 289-297
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00319107908084761
Abstract
It is proposed that the liquid phase metal-non metal transition in carbon takes place between an sp hybridized non-metallic liquid, with coordination number two, and a strongly correlated liquid metal in which directional bonding remains important though the hybridization and coordination number will probably change. Only at higher pressures is a quadrivalent liquid metal carbon to be expected, the formation of which should occur at the known maximum in the melting line of graphite. Motivated by a phenomenological argument, possible experiments to clarify the nature of these different liquid phases are proposed.Keywords
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