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notably Hume-Rothery, in an attempt to explain why intermetallic alloys with certain compositions would form and others would not. Initially, Hume-Rothery's attempts were quite successful. His idea was to add electrons to inflate the spherical Fermi-balloon inside the series of Brillouin-boxes and determine when a certain box would be full. This predicted a fairly large number of alloy compositions that were later observed. As soon as cyclotron resonance

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