ADJECTIVE
- (of physical systems) continuing in its present state of equilibrium unless sufficiently disturbed to pass to a more stable state of equilibrium
How To Use metastable In A Sentence
- Viewing the metastable phase through an optical microscope confirmed its fivefold symmetry.
- This spring (a period of great disappointment for our farmers) was a period of the so-called metastable conditions of rain clouds. Ferghana.Ru news agency
- A plasma is an ionised gas containing ions, metastable species, radicals, neutrals and electromagnetic radiation.
- Technetium-99m, where "m" stands for "metastable" -, one resorts to another isotope, Molybdenum-99. Backreaction
- Metastable transfer emission spectroscopy ( MTES ) has been used for the determination of trace mercury.
- This disappearance of a metastable state is precisely what happens at a ‘spinodal point’ in equilibrium statistical physics.
- Decay curves metastable fragment ions is also obtained by means of ion energy loss scans spectroscopy.
- Therefore, the metastable equilibrium between iron and iron carbide should be considered, because it is relevant to the behavior of most steels in practice.
- A local minimum near the transition state in the free energy profile suggests metastable states that are populated with a very low probability at equilibrium.
- Transformation of the monolayers involves a kinetic transition to a metastable state, analogous to the kinetic formation of metastable liquids.
