The Radial Distribution Functions of Water as Derived from Radiation Total Scattering Experiments: Is There Anything We Can Say for Sure?

Figure 8

Illustration of the relative contributions of single atom scattering and Compton scattering. The X-ray intensity data (solid line) in the units of electrons per steradian per atom are from the experiment described in [90]. The single atom scattering and the Compton scattering in the same units are shown as long dashed and dot-dashed lines, respectively. The interference scattering, 𝐷_𝑥(𝑄), using normalisation scheme II is shown as the dotted line, multiplied by a factor of 3 and shifted downwards for clarity. The intramolecular interference scattering has not been subtracted from these data.