Comment on "Model of saturated lithium ammonia as a single-component liquid metal" [J. Chem. Phys. 124, 074702 (2006)].
We demonstrate in this Comment that the theory of simple metals applied to the saturated Li-NH3 solution in the titled paper [U. Pinsook and S. Hannongbua, J. Chem. Phys.124, 074702 (2006)] should account for the peculiarities of the solution, namely, the high solvent polarizability and different energy scales for ion-ion and electron-electron interactions. Calculations not taking into account these peculiarities contradict the experimental phase diagram of the Li-NH3 solution.
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