The original concepts of the Hume-Rothery rule extended to alloys and compounds whose bonding is metallic, ionic, or covalent, or a changing mixture of these
Uichiro Mizutani, Hirokazu Sato, T. B. Massalski
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Ionic bondingChemical bondCondensed matter physicsValence electronMaterials scienceValence (chemistry)Covalent bondElectronElectronic structureMetalElectron localization functionMetallic bondingCrystallographyPhysicsChemistryQuantum mechanicsIonMetallurgySemiconductor materials and interfacesAdvanced Chemical Physics StudiesHeusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties