Structural properties of molten alkaline-earth halides: CaF2and BaCl2

Abstract
The X-ray diffracted intensities of molten CaF2 and BaCl2 and the partial structure factors of BaCl2 are calculated using the mean spherical approximation (MSA) and compared with experiment. A procedure to choose the ionic diameters is also illustrated and results compared with previous work on molten alkali halides.