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Intermediate energetic state within a dynamical system
pins show similar metastability by either merely wobbling for a moment or tipping over completely. A common example of metastability in science is isomerisation
Metastability
Ability of a digital electronic system to remain in unstable equilibrium forever
designed to allow the system to proceed only after the metastability has resolved, so the metastability is a normal condition, not an error condition. In synchronous
Metastability_(electronics)
Hypothetical vacuum, less stable than true vacuum
stability landscape division lines, rendering previous stability and metastability criteria incorrect. Reanalysis of 2016 LHC run data in 2022 has yielded
False_vacuum
Metastable excited state of a nuclide
A nuclear isomer is a metastable state of an atomic nucleus in which one or more nucleons (protons or neutrons) occupy excited state levels (higher energy
Nuclear_isomer
In the field of computational neuroscience, the theory of metastability refers to the human brain's ability to integrate several functional parts and
Metastability_in_the_brain
Steel alloy resistant to corrosion
Stainless steel is an iron-based alloy that contains chromium, making it resistant to rust and corrosion. Alternatively, it is known as inox (an abbreviation
Stainless_steel
Philosophical paradox regarding free will
choice of equally good dates. A version of this situation appears as metastability in digital electronics, when an electric circuit must decide between
Buridan's_ass
Electronic circuit with two stable states
the probability of a metastable event can be reduced to a negligible value, but never to zero. The probability of metastability gets closer and closer
Flip-flop_(electronics)
Fine-particled pyrotechnic composition
Nano-thermite or super-thermite is a metastable intermolecular composite (MIC) characterized by a particle size of its main constituents, a metal fuel
Nano-thermite
Fictional form of water
weapons", as well as being based on the real scientific principle of metastability. Saying that: while in the real world liquid water at room temperature
Ice-nine
Electronic device that allocates access to shared resources
New York University. Retrieved 25 July 2023. Digital Logic Metastability Metastability Performance of Clocked FIFOs The 'Asynchronous' Bibliography
Arbiter_(electronics)
Crossing in digital electronic design
domain. CDC metastability issues can occur between asynchronous clock domains; this is in contrast to reset domain crossing metastability, which can occur
Clock_domain_crossing
Theory extending Einstein gravity
doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.105006. Salvio, Alberto (25 February 2019). "Metastability in Quadratic Gravity". Physical Review D. 99 (10) 103507. arXiv:1902
Quadratic_gravity
Caustic soda, with formula NaOH
form: metastable. Trihemihydrate, NaOH·3.5H2O: from 5.4 °C (32.5%) to 15.38 °C (38.8%) and then to 5.0 °C (45.7%). Trihydrate, NaOH·3H2O: metastable. Dihydrate
Sodium_hydroxide
Silica mineral, polymorph of quartz
Cristobalite is stable only above 1470 °C, but can crystallize and persist metastably at lower temperatures. The persistence of cristobalite outside its thermodynamic
Cristobalite
States of matter for water as a solid
temperature in metastable form. The types are differentiated by their crystalline structure, proton ordering, and density. There are also two metastable phases
Phases_of_ice
Heating a liquid to a temperature above its boiling point without boiling
temperature higher than its boiling point, without boiling. This is a so-called metastable state or metastate, where boiling might occur at any time, induced by
Superheating
Sigma (Elijah Wood), asks about the stage of AI rampancy known as metastability, which should theoretically make an AI human. The Counselor tells him
List_of_Red_vs._Blue_episodes
Iron oxyhydroxide mineral
scavenging sulfide, a waste product of their metabolism. Ferrihydrite is a metastable mineral. It is known to be a precursor of more crystalline minerals like
Ferrihydrite
Form of carbon
stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, but diamond is metastable and converts to it at a negligible rate under those conditions. Diamond
Diamond
Chemical element with atomic number 87 (Fr)
of francium ranging in atomic mass from 197 to 233. Francium has seven metastable nuclear isomers. Francium-223 and francium-221 are the only isotopes that
Francium
Species formed from chemical reactions
1351/goldbook. ISBN 978-0-9678550-9-7. McNaught, A. D.; Wilkinson, A. (2006). [metastability] Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Blackwell
Product_(chemistry)
Video game series
Theoretically, a rampant AI could achieve a state of stability referred to as Metastability. While a stable rampant AI is considered the "holy grail" of computer
Marathon_(series)
Phase of hydrogen
pressure was released to assess the question of metastability. Metallic hydrogen was not found to be metastable to zero pressure. In August 2018, scientists
Metallic_hydrogen
Chemical element with atomic number 29 (Cu)
with the most stable being 67 Cu with a half-life of 61.83 hours. Ten metastable isomers have been characterized; 68m Cu is the longest-lived with a half-life
Copper
Microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline form of silica
crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system. Over geological time, the metastable moganite is recrystallized as quartz. Unlike macroscopic (macrocrystalline)
Chalcedony
Slovenian physicist researching quantum materials
of Sciences and Arts. His current interest is the study of mesoscopic metastable quantum states created through non-equilibrium processes using time-resolved
Dragan_D._Mihailović
Failure mode in MOSFET circuits
Technology SCR Latchup Video Tutorial Shirriff, Ken (August 2025). "Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386".
Latch-up
Material
Abraham (1 April 2004). "The Lotus Effect: Superhydrophobicity and Metastability". Langmuir. 20 (9): 3517–3519. doi:10.1021/la036369u. PMID 15875376
Self-cleaning_glass
Elementary particle involved with rest mass
have states of differing stability, including 'stable', 'unstable' and 'metastable' states (the latter remain stable unless sufficiently perturbed). If a
Higgs_boson
Silicate mineral
a much more common form of magnesium-rich amphibole, the latter being metastable. Cummingtonite shares few compositional similarities with alkali amphiboles
Cummingtonite
Crystalline form of carbon
atmosphere (0.10 MPa), the stable phase of carbon is graphite, but diamond is metastable and its rate of conversion to graphite is negligible. However, at temperatures
Graphite
Two-dimensional state of matter
Kosterlitz, J M; Thouless, D J (12 June 1972). "Long range order and metastability in two dimensional solids and superfluids. (Application of dislocation
Hexatic_phase
When the net force on a particle is zero
called a gömböc. Applied mechanics Dynamic equilibrium (mechanics) Metastability Statically indeterminate Statics Hydrostatic equilibrium John L Synge
Mechanical_equilibrium
Chart used to show conditions at which physical phases of a substance occur
coexist at equilibrium. Phase transitions occur along lines of equilibrium. Metastable phases are not shown in phase diagrams as, despite their common occurrence
Phase_diagram
Chemical compound
solid, hence a salt. In research, this salt is used as a source of the metastable nitroxyl (HNO), which is a signalling molecule in nature. It is also known
Angeli's_salt
Digital signal that does not reach a valid high or low level
recombined to form a glitch; or when the output of a flip-flop becomes metastable. Some oscilloscopes provide a method for triggering on runt pulses. The
Runt_pulse
Israeli mathematician (1963–2020)
in random environments, random perturbations of dynamical systems, metastability and homogenization. In particular, he extended the Dobrushin-Kotecky-Shlosman
Dmitry_Ioffe
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Device that measures magnetism
inherently wide spectral line. Magnetometers based on helium-4 excited to its metastable triplet state thanks to a plasma discharge have been developed in the
Magnetometer
Chemical compound
Isocyanogen, also known as cyanoisocyanogen, is a carbon nitride as well as a metastable isomer of cyanogen which has also been detected in the interstellar medium
Isocyanogen
How a thing is identified as distinct from other things
itself because it runs into a counter-tendency with which it forms a metastable equilibrium. (It must be pointed out how closely this conception of the
Individuation
Chemical element with atomic number 82 (Pb)
crystalline lead. Lighter carbon-group congeners of lead form stable or metastable allotropes with the tetrahedrally coordinated, covalently bonded diamond
Lead
invariant point is called the metastable extension. Univariant lines are usually drawn as a solid line while their metastable extensions are drawn as a dotted
Schreinemaker's_analysis
Brazilian mathematical statistician and probability theorist
Enzo Olivieri, Vares is the author of the book Large Deviations and Metastability (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications 100, Cambridge University
Maria_Eulália_Vares
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Isotopes_of_hydrogen
Model of computation
aspects relevant to designing real digital logic circuits, such as metastability, fanout, glitches, power consumption, and propagation delay variability
Boolean_circuit
Phenomenon in materials science
phenomenon. Crystal structure prediction Dynamical system Memetics Metastability Ostwald's rule of stages Protein folding#Misfolded proteins Prion Protein
Disappearing_polymorph
American physicist (born 1953)
Bürki, J.; Stafford, C. A.; Stein, D. L. (2005-08-22). "Theory of Metastability in Simple Metal Nanowires". Physical Review Letters. 95 (9) 090601.
Daniel_L._Stein
Basic unit of life forms
group. p. 604. ISBN 978-0-8153-4464-3. Vekilov, P. G.; et al. (2008). "Metastable mesoscopic phases in concentrated protein solutions". In Franzese, Giancarlo;
Cell_(biology)
Philosophical concept of social action
and singularities. Assemblages are metastable formations, not fixed atemporal events. They exist in a metastable state that has the potential to change
Assemblage_(philosophy)
Ordered chemical structure with no repeating pattern
cooling or casting with subsequent annealing, Metastable quasicrystals prepared by melt spinning, and Metastable quasicrystals formed by the crystallization
Quasicrystal
Excited state dynamic
conclusion that the extended lifetime of phosphorescence was due to a metastable excited state at an energy lower than the state first achieved upon excitation
Intersystem_crossing
Portmanteau name for nitrite derivatives
example, the red nitrito pentaamminecobalt complex [Co(NH3)5(ONO)]2+ is metastable, isomerizing to the yellow nitro complex [Co(NH3)5(NO2)]2+. Nitrite is
Nitrite
Chemical compound
pressure of carbon dioxide; this effect is due to the formation of the metastable lithium bicarbonate, which is more soluble: Li 2CO 3 + CO 2 + H 2O ⇌ 2
Lithium_carbonate
Chemical compound
crystallizes in at least four forms or polymorphs. The most familiar one, a metastable form (shown in the figure), comprises molecules of P4O10. Weak van der
Phosphorus_pentoxide
Property of some chemical elements to exist in two or more different forms
colorless (faint blue liquid and solid) Ozone, O3 – blue Tetraoxygen, O4 – metastable Octaoxygen, O8 – red Sulfur Cyclo-Pentasulfur, Cyclo-S5 Cyclo-Hexasulfur
Allotropy
Technology with features near one picometer
manipulation of energy states of electrons within an atom to produce metastable (or otherwise stabilized) states with unusual properties, producing some
Picotechnology
are less than ten minutes. One isotope, 229Th, has a nuclear isomer (or metastable state) with a remarkably low excitation energy, recently measured to be
Isotopes_of_thorium
Object that manipulates, creates, describes, and implements other objects
flexibility but introducing possibly complex or difficult-to-understand metastability issues (for instance, the object system must not destructively update
Metaobject
Chemical compound
size, and magnetic field intensity. γ-Fe2O3 has a cubic structure. It is metastable and converted from the alpha phase at high temperatures. It occurs naturally
Iron(III)_oxide
Form of gas laser
energy by photon emission, and its excited vibrational modes are therefore metastable and relatively long-lived. N 2{v1(1)} and CO 2{v3(1)} being nearly perfectly
Carbon-dioxide_laser
Chemical element with atomic number 50 (Sn)
than tin-100 and heavier than tin-132 are even less stable. Another 55 metastable isomers have been identified for tin isotopes between 111 and 131, the
Tin
Solar-cell architecture
Biswas, R; Pan, B.C (April 2002). "Defect kinetics in new model of metastability in a-Si:H". Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 299–302: 507–510. Bibcode:2002JNCS
Heterojunction_solar_cell
Pyrotechnic composition of metal powder and metal oxide
with nanosized particles are described by a variety of terms, such as metastable intermolecular composites, super-thermite, nano-thermite, and nanocomposite
Thermite
Process by which a solid with a highly organized structure forms
structures, a phenomenon called polymorphism. Certain polymorphs may be metastable, meaning that although it is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, it is kinetically
Crystallization
Compound of iron and carbon
heating at temperatures below the eutectoid temperature (723 °C) on the metastable iron-carbon phase diagram. Mechanical properties are as follows: room
Cementite
Six or seven different forms that pure plutonium metal can take
delta (δ) phase normally exists in the 310 °C to 452 °C range but is metastable at room temperature when alloyed with a small percentage of gallium, aluminium
Allotropes_of_plutonium
Reproduction by closely related organisms
ISBN 978-0-87395-618-5. Joly E (December 2011). "The existence of species rests on a metastable equilibrium between inbreeding and outbreeding. An essay on the close
Inbreeding
Return of a perturbed system into equilibrium
which can be quantified as the average relaxation time for the solid in a metastable supercooled liquid or glass to approach the molecular motion characteristic
Relaxation_(physics)
Form of radioactive decay
to the ground state without undergoing full fission. These states are 'metastable' – a nucleus in this state may, on timescales between nanoseconds and
Spontaneous_fission
Degenerate matter made from strange quarks
Under this hypothesis, the nuclei of the atoms we see around us are only metastable, even when the external critical pressure is zero, and given enough time
Strange_matter
as conceiving the idea that neutron stars suddenly speed up due to metastability of superfluid vortices in the star's interior. He also suggested a model
Richard_Packard
Topics referred to by the same term
asynchronous circuit Synchronizer, an electronic circuit technique; see metastability in electronics Synchronizer (film editing), a device for aligning multiple
Synchronizer
Computer simulation method
in a metastable state. It does this by using the fact that the high temperature simulation may visit states typical of both stable and metastable low temperature
Parallel_tempering
Chemical element with atomic number 31 (Ga)
complex phase diagrams of all the elemental metals, with many stable and metastable phases discovered as function of temperature and pressure. Gallium exhibits
Gallium
Argentine scientist
and glasses. He has published over 300 scientific papers. and a book, Metastable Liquids: Concepts and Principles. Debenedetti has made numerous contributions
Pablo_G._Debenedetti
Collapsed core of a massive star
vortices in the theoretical superfluid core of the neutron star from one metastable energy state to a lower one, thereby releasing energy that appears as
Neutron_star
Mechanism of spontaneous phase separation
contrast, nucleation and growth occur when a homogenous phase becomes metastable. That is, another biphasic system becomes lower in free energy, but the
Spinodal_decomposition
Graphical presentation of transitions occurring in decay of a radioactive substance
slowly and are called "metastable". For example, the excited state of the technetium isotope 99mTc (the "m" means it is metastable) decays to the ground
Decay_scheme
Tabular arrangement of the chemical elements
electron affinity: they cannot form stable gas-phase anions. (They can form metastable resonances if the incoming electron arrives with enough kinetic energy
Periodic_table
Reaction of carbon monoxide and water vapor
(October 2019). "Carboxyl intermediate formation via an in situ-generated metastable active site during water-gas shift catalysis". Nature Catalysis. 2 (10):
Water–gas_shift_reaction
Chemical element with atomic number 2 (He)
electrical insulator unless ionized. As with the other noble gases, helium has metastable energy levels that allow it to remain ionized in an electrical discharge
Helium
Class of sedimentary rock
synthesis. This dolomite, when formed in the oceans, can prove to be metastable. The resultant structure of this mineral presents minimal differences
Carbonate_rock
Theory of nucleation
new thermodynamic phase or a new structure, starting from a state of metastability. The kinetics of formation of the new phase is frequently dominated
Classical_nucleation_theory
Creating sequence of numbers that cannot be predicted
random "noise" signals, including thermal and shot noise, jitter and metastability of electronic circuits, Brownian motion, and atmospheric noise. Researchers
Random_number_generation
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Oceanographic Phenomenon
fronts. A different theory states that staircases represent distinct metastable equilibria. It is suggested that finite-amplitude perturbations to the
Thermohaline_staircase
Type of steel
the γ→ε transformation threshold, TRIP and TWIP may coexist. Under such metastable conditions, both stacking-fault-assisted ε-martensite nucleation and deformation
TWIP_steel
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Isotopes_of_neodymium
Three dimensional shape of a protein
state. For example, many serpins (serine protease inhibitors) show this metastability. They undergo a conformational change when a loop of the protein is
Protein_tertiary_structure
Mineral or mineral compound that appears in an atypical form
aragonite and calcite, the unstable mineral can remains indefinitely in a metastable form, although transformation can occur under some conditions. Usually
Pseudomorph
Phase of iron only stable at high pressures
austenite-hexaferrum phase boundary in Figure 1 suggests hexaferrum could be stable or metastable in Earth's core. For this reason, many experimental studies have investigated
Hexaferrum
Mineral form of titanium dioxide
Anatase is a metastable mineral form of titanium dioxide (TiO2) with a tetragonal crystal structure. Although colorless or white when pure, anatase in
Anatase
Predicted phase in quark matter
other extreme, it is conceivable that nuclear matter in bulk is actually metastable, and decays into quark matter (the "stable strange matter hypothesis")
Color_superconductivity
less than a year and the majority under 20 minutes. The number of known metastable states is very large, including a long series of low-lying states in odd
Isotopes_of_tin
Chemical compound
compound with the chemical formula CH• 3 (also written as [CH 3]•). It is a metastable colourless gas, which is mainly produced in situ as a precursor to other
Methyl_radical
Class of chemical compounds
bound to Cl(12) and secondarily bonded to Cl(7). The monomeric form is metastable when condensed, but eventually polymerizes to give a structure with the
Carborane_acid
Chemical compound
with formula CoH. This can be decompressed at low temperatures to form a metastable compound at atmospheric pressure. Over 45 GPa a cobalt(II) hydride CoH2
Cobalt(II)_hydride
Paper treated to change colour with heat
crystalline forms when stored in hot or humid conditions. To stabilize the metastable glass formed by the leuco dye, developer and sensitizer, a fourth type
Thermal_paper
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Indian, Sanskrit
Moonlight; Moon's Rays
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Celtic Irish
Shining sea.
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Italian
Italian form of Latin Americus, AMERIGO means "work-power."Â
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Eagle tree.
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Gurus sweetheart
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Variant spelling of Teutonic Hildegard, HILDEGARDE means "battle guard."
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