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Metastable in a sentence
Metastable meaning
Of or pertaining to a physical or chemical state that is relatively long-lived, but may decay to a lower energy state when slightly perturbed or through a quantum transition.
Using Metastable
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to a physical or chemical state that is relatively long-lived, but may decay to a lower energy state when slightly perturbed or through a quantum transition.
- Useful related words include: constancy, stability.
- In the example corpus, metastable often appears in combinations such as: metastable state, is metastable, metastable states.
Context around Metastable
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Metastable
- In this selection, "metastable" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, exhibit, macromolecules, variant, states, phase and allotrope stand out and add context to how "metastable" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a metastable state of and and macromolecules metastable phases are. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "metastable" sits close to words such as abenaki, abstracted and addendum, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with metastable
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A number of bromine isotopes exhibit metastable isomers. (8 words)
Condensed matter and macromolecules Metastable phases are common in condensed matter. (11 words)
Martensite is a metastable phase used to control the hardness of most steel. (13 words)
Like a metastable phase in statistical mechanics water below the freezing temperature or above the boiling point a quantum field would need to nucleate a large enough bubble of the new vacuum, the new phase, in order to make a transition. (41 words)
Below this temperature, honey can be either in a metastable state, meaning that it will not crystallize until a seed crystal is added, or, more often, it is in a "labile" state, being saturated with enough sugars to crystallize spontaneously. (40 words)
Nuclear isomers, including a "stable" one The count of 254 known stable nuclides includes tantalum-180m, since even though its decay and instability is automatically implied by its notation of "metastable", still this has not yet been observed. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Above this temperature and in ambient light, this metastable allotrope transforms into the more stable black allotrope.
A metastable state of weaker bond (1), a transitional 'saddle' configuration (2) and a stable state of stronger bond (3).
A number of bromine isotopes exhibit metastable isomers.
Because obsidian is metastable at the Earth's surface (over time the glass becomes fine-grained mineral crystals), no obsidian has been found that is older than Cretaceous age.
Below this temperature, honey can be either in a metastable state, meaning that it will not crystallize until a seed crystal is added, or, more often, it is in a "labile" state, being saturated with enough sugars to crystallize spontaneously.
Chemical properties The viral particle must be metastable so that interactions can be reversed readily when entering and uncoating a new host cell.
Condensed matter and macromolecules Metastable phases are common in condensed matter.
Differential cross sections in inelastic scattering contain resonance peaks that indicate the creation of metastable states and contain information about their energy and lifetime.
During a metastable state of finite lifetime all state-describing parameters reach and hold stationary values.
Four allotropes of antimony are known: a stable metallic form and three metastable forms (explosive, black and yellow).
In another variant, metastable structures can impart transformation toughening for mechanical applications; most ceramic knife blades are made of this material.
In a sense, an electron that happens to find itself in a metastable configuration is trapped there.
In regions where a particular state is not the most stable, it may still be metastable.
Like a metastable phase in statistical mechanics water below the freezing temperature or above the boiling point a quantum field would need to nucleate a large enough bubble of the new vacuum, the new phase, in order to make a transition.
Martensite is a metastable phase used to control the hardness of most steel.
Metastable mixtures A mixture may be appear to have no tendency to change, though it is not at equilibrium.
Metastable states that persist for many seconds (or years) are found in energetic valleys which are not the lowest possible valley (point 1 in illustration).
More specifically, a compound has to be stable or metastable at 25 °C.
Nuclear isomers, including a "stable" one The count of 254 known stable nuclides includes tantalum-180m, since even though its decay and instability is automatically implied by its notation of "metastable", still this has not yet been observed.
Of all these other states, the metastable states are the ones having lifetimes lasting at least 10 2 to 10 3 times longer than the shortest lived states of the set.
Common combinations with metastable
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- metastable state 6×
- is metastable 5×
- metastable states 5×
- metastable at 4×
- in metastable 3×
- of metastable 3×
- metastable phase 3×
- the metastable 3×
- be metastable 2×
- from metastable 2×