eutectic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /juˈtɛk.tɪk/ (US)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek εὔτηκτος (eútēktos, “easily melted”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + τήκω (tḗkō, “to melt”). Coined as an adjective (along with the noun eutexia) by British scientist Frederick Guthrie in 1884.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Describing the chemical composition or temperature of a mixture of substances that gives the lowest temperature at which the mixture becomes fully molten. A further requirement is that that temperature is lower than the melting point of any of the pure component substances.
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(not-comparable) Describing the thermodynamic equilibrium conditions where a liquid coexists with two solid phases.
For a mixture with two components at a fixed pressure, the eutectic reaction can only happen at a fixed chemical composition and temperature, called the eutectic point.
Deriveds
hypoeutectic · eutectic alloy · anchieutectic · eutectofelsite · eutectic point · eutectic mixture · hypereutectoid · eutectoid · eutectophyre · hypereutectic · hypoeutectoid
Translations (6)
ca eutèctic (describing chemical composition/temperature of a mixture that gives the lowest temperature at which it becomes fully molten) · de eutektisch (describing chemical composition/temperature of a mixture that gives the lowest temperature at which it becomes fully molten) · tr ötektik (describing chemical composition/temperature of a mixture that gives the lowest temperature at which it becomes fully molten) · fi eutektinen (chemistry: describing the thermodynamic equilibrium conditions where a liquid coexists with two solid phases) · tr birerim (describing chemical composition/temperature of a mixture that gives the lowest temperature at which it becomes fully molten) · fi eutektinen (describing chemical composition/temperature of a mixture that gives the lowest temperature at which it becomes fully molten)