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monotectoid

monotectoid adjective: describes the isothermal reversible change of a solid phase to form two different solid phases during cooling. This differs from a eutectoid in that a monotectoid includes two phases separated by a miscibility gap, and thus have the same crystal structure but different compositions.

Adjective

monotectoid (not comparable)

  1. Describes the isothermal reversible change of a solid phase to form two different solid phases during cooling. This differs from a eutectoid in that a monotectoid includes two phases separated by a miscibility gap, and thus have the same crystal structure but different compositions.

Questions about monotectoid

What does monotectoid mean?
Monotectoid means describes the isothermal reversible change of a solid phase to form two different solid phases during cooling. This differs from a eutectoid in that a monotectoid includes two phases separated by a miscibility gap, and thus have the same crystal structure but different compositions.
What part of speech is monotectoid?
Monotectoid is an adjective.

Words near monotectoid in the dictionary

  1. monotasks
  2. monotaxic
  3. monotechnic
  4. monotechnics
  5. monotectic
  6. monotectoid
  7. monotelephone
  8. monotelephones
  9. monotelephonic
  10. monotelic
  11. monotelical

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