Constitution and Model Description of the Structural Characteristics of Metallurgical Melts

The available experimental material on the properties and constitution of various melts (metals, oxides, sulfides, salts, and molecular liquids) has confirmed their complex microheterogeneous constitution and has shown that the structural parameters of pure and multicomponent solutions vary with the nature, temperature, and composition of the substance. The idea that a liquid phase is interrelated to the structure and properties of the solid phase, which was advanced back in the nineteen-thirties by Frenkel, has been confirmed. Quasicrystalline models, which reflect the unity of the real forces of interatomic interaction on the two sides of the melting range, have had great success in describing liquids.