(1) The compressed films are metastable at these pressures.(2) A plasma is an ionised gas containing ions, metastable species, radicals, neutrals and electromagnetic radiation.(3) At very low membrane tension, small fusion pores can be trapped in a flickering metastable state.(4) A local minimum near the transition state in the free energy profile suggests metastable states that are populated with a very low probability at equilibrium.(5) This disappearance of a metastable state is precisely what happens at a u2018spinodal pointu2019 in equilibrium statistical physics.(6) What allows this metastable state to persist is the existence of an energy barrier.(7) In van der Waals' theory, the spinodals are the turning points in the loops of the phase diagram where a metastable liquid or gas becomes unstable.(8) In this mode the upper level is pumped up before the lower level has had time to empty and, consequently, there is no room in the lower levels for the metastable states to decay to.(9) The metastable film melts with no increase in area beyond the thermal expansion of the LE phase.(10) Transformation of the monolayers involves a kinetic transition to a metastable state, analogous to the kinetic formation of metastable liquids.(11) To our knowledge, this is the first theoretical prediction of the metastability of the stalk itself.(12) A useful term to describe this is metastability : immune networks provide evidence for an ongoing process of individuation, itself a more or less chaotic process.(13) The metastability is with respect to solid-liquid coexistence, that is, the solutions are supersaturated.(14) Indeed, the best calculations today confirm the metastability of this ring.(15) We suspect that this variety of measured values comes either from metastability effects or from differences in experimental conditions.
