Hume-Rothery rule

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Hume-Rothery rule [′hyüm ′rȯth·ə·rē ‚rül]

(solid-state physics)

The rule that the ratio of the number of valence electrons to the number of atoms in a given phase of an electron compound depends only on the phase, and not on the elements making up the compounds.

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