Consistent approaches to van der Waals radii for the metallic elements

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie

Volumn 224, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 375-383

  Hu, Sheng Zhi ^a   Zhou, Zhao Hui ^a   Robertson, B E ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Average atomic volume; Bond valence parameter; Metallic element; Single covalent radius; Van der Waals radius

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249137965     PISSN: 00442968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/zkri.2009.1158     Document Type: Article

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