Returns the deviation of a particular elemental property in an alloy.

See equation 6 of the paper “Machine-learning improves understanding of glass formation in metallic systems” for definition of the deviation: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/dd/d2dd00026a

Parameters:¶

alloy: Alloy | str | dict¶

The alloy for which to calculate the deviation.

property_name: str¶

The elemental property to calculate the linear mixture of.