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Despite their lack of long-range translational and orientational order, covalent amorphous solids can exhibit structural order over both short and medium length scales, the latter reaching to 20 Å or so. Medium-range order is difficult to measure experimentally and to interpret unambiguously, but a variety of techniques have allowed several types of characteristic structural ordering to be identified and their origin elucidated.
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Elliott, S. Medium-range structural order in covalent amorphous solids. Nature 354, 445–452 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/354445a0
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