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    pins show similar metastability by either merely wobbling for a moment or tipping over completely. A common example of metastability in science is isomerisation...
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    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...
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  • In the field of computational neuroscience, the theory of metastability refers to the human brain's ability to integrate several functional parts and...
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    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...
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    stability landscape division lines, rendering previous stability and metastability criteria incorrect. Reanalysis of 2016 LHC run data in 2022 has yielded...
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    choice of equally good dates. A version of this situation appears as metastability in digital electronics, when an electric circuit must decide between...
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    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...
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  • Nano-thermite or super-thermite is a metastable intermolecular composite (MIC) characterized by a particle size of its main constituents, a metal fuel...
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    Stainless steel, also known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), or rustless steel, is an iron-based alloy that contains chromium, making it resistant...
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    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...
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  • domain. CDC metastability issues can occur between asynchronous clock domains; this is in contrast to reset domain crossing metastability, which can occur...
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  • though they are not in their lowest energy state if they experience metastability — a state which is stable only if not disturbed too much. A substance...
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    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...
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  • New York University. Retrieved 25 July 2023. Digital Logic Metastability Metastability Performance of Clocked FIFOs The 'Asynchronous' Bibliography...
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    aspects relevant to designing real digital logic circuits, such as metastability, fanout, glitches, power consumption, and propagation delay variability...
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  • 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...
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    Cristobalite is stable only above 1470 °C, but can crystallize and persist metastably at lower temperatures. The persistence of cristobalite outside its thermodynamic...
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  • 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...
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    state. For example, many serpins (serine protease inhibitors) show this metastability. They undergo a conformational change when a loop of the protein is...
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  • asynchronous circuit Synchronizer, an electronic circuit technique; see metastability in electronics Synchronizer (film editing), a device for aligning multiple...
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  • Sigma (Elijah Wood), asks about the stage of AI rampancy known as metastability, which should theoretically make an AI human. The Counselor tells him...
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  • radical. Singlet oxygen (O* 2), one of two metastable states of molecular oxygen. Tetraoxygen (O4), another metastable form. Solid oxygen, existing in six variously...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • β-emitters, to create metastable helium species. The radioactive source ionizes helium atoms by bombarding them with emissions. The metastable helium species...
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    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...
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  • flexibility but introducing possibly complex or difficult-to-understand metastability issues (for instance, the object system must not destructively update...
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  • pressure was released to assess the question of metastability. Metallic hydrogen was not found to be metastable to zero pressure. In August 2018, scientists...
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  • Chemical stability Equilibrium chemistry Dynamic equilibrium Instability Metastability Reaction intermediate Emotional lability "Regeneration and Repair"....
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    called a gömböc. Dynamic equilibrium (mechanics) Engineering mechanics Metastability Statically indeterminate Statics Hydrostatic equilibrium John L Synge...
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