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The lattice spacings and compressibilities of the nontransition-elemental solids are calculated using Ashcroft pseudopotentials to describe the cores and the von Weizsacker method to describe the valence electrons. The observed correlations of these quantities with the Pauling radii and the valencies are thereby obtained.
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Meyer et al. (1971) studied this question.
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