The consideration of short-range order in the melts of close-packed metals is represented on the basis of analysis of all distinguishing maxima on the radial distribution function (RDF) of atoms in the ordered region.
SOBOSOSOB7>The procedure to determine structure parameters in liquid metals by diffraction study is described in Part I of our report. Here an attempt is made to find out common and distinguishing features of liquid metals having close-packed premelting structures.In a first approximation, the close-packed crystal structure of metals may be assumed as a regular packing of spherical atoms in a short-range order. The contribution of the directional interaction there is significantly less than in metals of friable structures. The denser atomic packings occur also in their melts and result in different values of the important ratios, such as S2/S1 = 1.80 -1.90; = 1.81 -1.93.Their structures in the liquid state are much closer to the parameters of the simple liquid model (DRPHS).A complete analysis of all features of the structural factors and RDFs is necessary to discover short-range order in the melts.Comparing the first maximum abscissas of liquid fee metals with their line polyciystalline diagrams, agreement with (111) reflection is found at an accuracy of 1%. The shortest interatomic distance in the crystal, r®, is close to the abscissa of the first coordination RDFs maximum. The square under the first peak is on the average near z^1" = 11. On the basis of this data it has often been confirmed that the ordering in the melt corresponds to a crystal-like model /1,2/. Nevertheless, a more detailed analysis excludes this conception. Figure 1 represents the structural factor of liquid nickel /3/. The agreement between some maxima and polycrystalline reflections cannot be considered as Fig. 1: Structural factor and difference RDF curve of liquid nickel at 1773 Κ /8/. 1 -the line diagram of polycrystalline Ni; 2 -the coordination spheres radii in fcc-Ni and the numbers of their ζ atoms.