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- noun Plural form of
eutectic .
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Examples
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A mixture with many different materials will form eutectics (and will melt) at a lower temperature.
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As a matter of course, the same thing holds good for metallic eutectics.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
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We have already seen with salt eutectics that, given the curve of melting-points of a mixture in various proportions, we may predict the existence, composition, and melting-point of the eutectic alloy.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
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Hopefully, this liquid battery will be developed further possibly using lower melting eutectics.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Fascinated by eutectics, the science of mixing various metals into clay to alter its properties, the Heaths would drive around the West Coast, gathering buckets of native clays to take home and experiment with.
‘She was an alchemist’: Edith Heath, the rebel ceramicist who defined postwar California modernism Peter-Astrid Kane 2022
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