How to Use metastable in a Sentence
metastable
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The new phase is also metastable.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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Then, those metastable states de-excite, causing the emission of a gamma-ray.
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
4 Sep. 2025
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These in-between phases are called metastable states, and their existence demonstrates that some phase transitions happen in steps, rather than all at once.
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Shalma Wegsman,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Apr. 2026
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Its highly distorted structure could enable complex transition pathways that lead to metastable ice phases.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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However, by dividing the laser energy into two separate pulses and synchronizing them with precision, the scientists managed to halt the melting mid-process and lock the material into a new, metastable form.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Aug. 2025
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Water’s metastable states support a theory of phase transitions called Ostwald’s step rule, named for Wilhelm Ostwald, a German physical chemist and a peer of Albert Einstein.
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Shalma Wegsman,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Apr. 2026
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Researchers reported the experimental realization of single-crystalline θ-phase tantalum nitride (θ-TaN), a metastable transition metal nitride predicted to overcome this limitation.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Jan. 2026
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Precise laser pluses ‘freeze’ atoms in place Interestingly, the team found that this metastable form preserves most of the electronic characteristics of the original crystalline silicon, including a slightly smaller band gap, a key factor in determining how the material conducts electricity.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Aug. 2025
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