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An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.

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metastability

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metastability

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An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.

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不安定ながらも、比較的長い時間持続する可能性のある状態（例：過飽和溶液や励起状態の原子などに見られる） / 準安定状態

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Researchers observed metastability in the new alloy, where the structure remained unchanged for weeks before finally transforming.

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研究者たちは新しい合金における準安定状態を観測し、その構造は数週間にわたって変わらず、やがて変化した。

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An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.

Soloman's belief that love is necessarily paradoxical issues from his attempt to define it as what Sartre would call a dialectical metastability. Love must therefore be not a "state of the union but a never ending conflict of pushing away and pulling together."

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metastabilities

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