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Soft matter physics

the densest disordered packing of equal spheres, filling roughly 64 percent of space.

In soft matter physics, random close packing refers to the densest disordered packing of equal spheres, filling roughly 64 percent of space. This meaning comes from Bernal (1960) in Nature.[1]

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References

Bernal, J. D., & Mason, J. (1960). Packing of Spheres: Co-ordination of Randomly Packed Spheres. Nature, 188(4754), 910-911. https://doi.org/10.1038/188910a0

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