A molecular dynamics simulation study has been performed for a large system consisting of 100000 liquid metal Al atoms to investigate the formation and magic number characteristics of the cluster configurations formed during the rapid solidification processes. The cluster-type index method (CTIM) has been adopted to describe various types of cluster configurations. The results indicate that the icosahedral clusters (12 0 12 0) and their combinations play the most important role in the microstructure transitions during solidification processes; for the cluster configurations of different levels formed by various combinations with differing numbers of basic clusters, their size distributions possess obvious magic number sequence which is in turn as 13 (13), 19(21), 26-28(27), 32-33(32), 39-40, 43-44, 48…, (those in bracket are the corresponding value in liquid state); the magic numbers correspond to the peak value positions of the cluster numbers for corresponding level formed with various combinations by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, …basic clusters, respectively. This magic number sequence is in good agreement with the experimental results obtained by Harris et al. At the same time, this simulation study also gives a scientific and reasonable explanation to these experimental results.

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According to the test results, the flotation process parameters of refractory zinc oxide ore will be optimized by the response surface methodology in this paper. The regression model between Zn recovery and sodium sulfide concentration, depressant(F1) concentration and sodium carbonate concentration was established. It can be known that the model is highly significant and test error is very small, and the concentration of sodium sulfide has great influence to the recovery of Zn concentrate. The verification tests results show that the model is reliable and can predict accurately the zinc recovery. It can be concluded that the optimizing process parameters are sodium sulfide 7500g/t, depressant concentration 1050g/t, and sodium carbonate concentration 2200g/t, which can provide the technical basis for the comprehensive utilization of low grade refractory zinc oxide ore.