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Noun Concept
Categories: Chemical properties, Dynamical systems
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metastability  global stability  kinetic stability  kinetically stable  local stability
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The quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed WordNet 3.0
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The quality of a physical system that persists in its existing equilibrium when undisturbed (or only slightly disturbed) but able to pass to a more stable equilibrium when sufficiently disturbed WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In chemistry and physics, metastability denotes an intermediate energetic state within a dynamical system other than the system's state of least energy. Wikipedia
An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom. Wiktionary
Unstable but potentially long-lived state. Wiktionary (translation)
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constancy
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physics
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Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
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thermodynamics
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metastability
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metastability
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global stability, kinetic stability, kinetically stable, local stability, meta-stable, Metastability in molecules, metastable, metastable molecule, metastable phase, metastable state, Quasistability, Quasistable, unstable molecules
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metastable

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