Glassy metal

Interest is maintained ia these materials because of the combination of mechanical, corrosion, electric, and magnetic properties. However, it is their ferromagnetic properties that lead to the principal appHcation of glassy metals. The soft magnetic properties and remarkably low coercivity offer tremendous opportunities for this appHcation (see Magnetic materials, bulk Magnetic materials, thin film). 

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (4th Edition) 

The description of the atomic distribution in noncrystalline materials employs a distribution function, (r), which corresponds to the probability of finding another atom at a distance r from the origin atom taken as the point r = 0. In a system having an average number density p = N/V, the probability of finding another atom at a distance r from an origin atom corresponds to Pq ( ). Whereas the information given by (r), which is called the pair distribution function, is only one-dimensional, it is quantitative information on the noncrystalline systems and as such is one of the most important pieces of information in the study of noncrystalline materials. The interatomic distances cannot be smaller than the atomic core diameters, so = 0. 

Because the correlation of atomic positions decreases as r — co, = 1. The function 47T p (, the radial distribution function (RDF), may also be 

FeygEj Sig Metglas 2605S2, good magnetic properties 

PdgoSijo easy to form glass, thick samples produced 

Al8BNi1 Fe, C k18 high strength low density thick ribbons 

---