Metastable Definition

mĕtə-stābəl
adjective
Changing readily either to a more stable or less stable condition, as certain electrons; unstable.
Webster's New World
Of, relating to, or being an unstable but relatively long-lived state of a chemical or physical system, as of a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
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Origin of Metastable

  • meta- +"Ž stable

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Metastable Sentence Examples

  • Though carbon passes far more readily under most conditions into the state of cementite than into that of graphite, yet of the two graphite is the more stable and cementite the less stable, or the ' metastable " form.

  • The production of materials with novel structures from doubly metastable liquids has not previously been considered.

  • Hence, we need to rationalize the kinetic factors that can lead to the observation of metastable polymorphs.

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