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We have postulated that the weak transition which occurs in cubic crystals of beryllium oxyacetate at about 40° C. is a kind of order-disorder transition due to the simultaneous rotation of carboxyl oxygen atoms around the carbon-to-carbon bonds1.
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WATANABÉ, T., SAITO, Y. & KOYAMA, H. Order-Disorder Transition in Beryllium Oxyacetate Crystals. Nature 164, 1046 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641046a0
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