Separating the details of surface structure from those of the bulk material is difficult. An X-ray-based technique reveals clearer, and contrasting, pictures of the atomic surface structure of water and methanol.
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Rossky, P. Only skin-deep. Nature 419, 889–890 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/419889a
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