Explore Eutectic through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like mixture. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Eutectic in a sentence
Eutectic meaning
- Describing the chemical composition or temperature of a mixture of substances that gives the lowest temperature at which the mixture becomes fully molten. A further requirement is that that temperature is lower than the melting point of any of the pure component substances.
- Describing the thermodynamic equilibrium conditions where a liquid coexists with two solid phases.
Synonyms of Eutectic
Using Eutectic
- The main meaning on this page is: Describing the chemical composition or temperature of a mixture of substances that gives the lowest temperature at which the mixture becomes fully molten. A further requirement is that that temperature is lower than the melting point of any of the pure component substances. | Describing the thermodynamic equilibrium conditions where a liquid coexists with two solid phases.
- Useful related words include: mixture.
- In the example corpus, eutectic often appears in combinations such as: eutectic mixture, the eutectic, forms eutectic.
Context around Eutectic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Eutectic
- In this selection, "eutectic" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, non, example, bismuth, mixture, alloys and solder stand out and add context to how "eutectic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include displaying a eutectic point and a molten eutectic is referred. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "eutectic" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with eutectic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pure and eutectic metals usually have narrow solidification ranges. (9 words)
For example, eutectic reactions, martensitic reactions, and graphitization can cause expansions or contractions. (13 words)
Often a reactor of this type would use a lead-bismuth eutectic mixture. (13 words)
In eutectic tin-silver (3.5% Ag) alloy it tends to form platelets of Ag 3 Sn, which, if formed near a high-stress spot, may serve as initiating sites for cracks; silver content needs to be kept below 3% to inhibit such problems. (44 words)
Hydrogen peroxide and water form a eutectic mixture, exhibiting freezing-point depression ; pure water has a melting point of 0 °C and pure hydrogen peroxide of −0.43 °C, but a 50% (by volume) solution of the two freezes at −51 °C. (42 words)
Comparison of phase diagrams of carbon dioxide (red) and water (blue) explaining their different phase transitions at 1 atmosphere * A eutectic transformation, in which a two component single phase liquid is cooled and transforms into two solid phases. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Non-eutectic compositions on cooling start to first precipitate the non-eutectic phase; dendrites when it is a metal, large crystals when it is an intermetallic compound.
Alternatively, on cooling a liquid with the eutectic composition will solidify as uniformly dispersed, small (fine-grained) mixed crystals with the same composition.
Below is an example cooling curve of a pure metal or eutectic alloy, with defining terminology.
Comparison of phase diagrams of carbon dioxide (red) and water (blue) explaining their different phase transitions at 1 atmosphere * A eutectic transformation, in which a two component single phase liquid is cooled and transforms into two solid phases.
Eutectic alloys also solidify at a single temperature, all components precipitating simultaneously in so-called coupled growth.
For example, eutectic reactions, martensitic reactions, and graphitization can cause expansions or contractions.
Hydrogen peroxide and water form a eutectic mixture, exhibiting freezing-point depression ; pure water has a melting point of 0 °C and pure hydrogen peroxide of −0.43 °C, but a 50% (by volume) solution of the two freezes at −51 °C.
In electrical work, if the joint is disturbed in the pasty state before it has solidified totally, a poor electrical connection may result; use of eutectic solder reduces this problem.
In eutectic tin-silver (3.5% Ag) alloy it tends to form platelets of Ag 3 Sn, which, if formed near a high-stress spot, may serve as initiating sites for cracks; silver content needs to be kept below 3% to inhibit such problems.
Non-eutectic alloys have markedly different solidus and liquidus temperatures, and within that range they exist as a paste of solid particles in a melt of the lower-melting phase.
Often a reactor of this type would use a lead-bismuth eutectic mixture.
Pure and eutectic metals usually have narrow solidification ranges.
Silicon's importance in aluminium casting is that a significantly high amount (12%) of silicon in aluminium forms a eutectic mixture which solidifies with very little thermal contraction.
Such a mixture of solid particles in a molten eutectic is referred to as a mushy state.
The eutectic temperature of this mixture is 176 K. The ocean, however, is likely to have frozen long ago.
The pasty state of a non-eutectic solder can be exploited in plumbing as it allows molding of the solder during cooling, e.g. for ensuring watertight joint of pipes, resulting in a so-called 'wiped joint'.
The percentage of carbon determines the type of the ferrous alloy: iron, steel or cast iron A phase diagram for a binary system displaying a eutectic point.
Thermodynamics main A phase diagram for a binary system displaying a eutectic point.
The widespread use of this popular lead-free solder alloy family is based on the reduced melting point of the Sn-Ag-Cu ternary eutectic behavior (217 ˚C), which is below the 22/78 Sn-Ag (wt.
Tin forms a eutectic mixture with lead in the proportion 63% tin and 37% lead.
Common combinations with eutectic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: