Technetium-99m, where "m" stands for "metastable" -, one resorts to another isotope, Molybdenum-99.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backreaction] Reference

This spring (a period of great disappointment for our farmers) was a period of the so-called metastable conditions of rain clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferghana.Ru news agency] Reference

Setup or hold violations cause the output of the flip-flop to enter a symmetrically balanced transient state, called a metastable state.    From Wordnik.com.  [EE Times-Asia] Reference

They manipulate the water in the xylem under negative pressure - what's called a metastable liquid state - right on the verge of becoming a vapor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Piehole] Reference

(For the case of "metastable" states of excitation, these arguments must be modified analogously.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Walther Bothe - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Such metastable configurations are embedded defects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embedded in Montreal] Reference

But plain to see, the configuration was only metastable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations]

In the first place, the miniaturized state is metastable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destination Brain]

They are are all metastable, not really crazy and dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder of South Korea] Reference

We call it a 'metastable cycle' -- referring to the peak as metastable.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's dynasty cycle] Reference

The level can change without the system having been at a metastable point.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Have 25 Years Invested in This Work… « Climate Audit] Reference

But as you can see from the world around us, the climate system is metastable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A few inconvenient truths « Climate Audit] Reference

My HuffPost of last week on the metastable state of our economy is coming all too true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patrick Takahashi: Simple Solution for Our Fiscal Mess] Reference

At this temperature white tin is in a metastable condition, and transforms into the gray variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

A sizable MMH deposit off Guatemala, possibly catalyzed by a related earthquake, also went metastable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patrick Takahashi: The Venus Syndrome (Part Two)] Reference

Stable states are distinguished by a residence time longer than that of metastable or unstable states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quantum Approaches to Consciousness] Reference

String theory could have a vast landscape of metastable vacua whether or not eternal inflation is true.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

Even moreso if the system is structurally unstable emergent features exist intermittently or metastable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit] Reference

Glasses and supercooled liquids are both metastable phases rather than true thermodynamic phases like crystalline solids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference

· "A programmatic, metastable, perfectly descriptive machine that offers the signs of the real and short-circuits all vicissitudes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Response to 8 Years of George W. Bush's Simulucrum on Real Humans] Reference

Unwelcome, or not, the existence of an exponentially large number of metastable vacua (once one fixes the moduli) is a feature of String Theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

This is a metastable gas, meaning because it is by definition electrically charged, and it will fall apart, and form water again, if the charges are gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suppression Suppressed. Paranoia, conspiracy theories and the truth about free energy.] Reference

(There are a number of plausible constructions of metastable dS in string theory, but these are not nearly as firmly established as superymmetric AdS vacua.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Two cheers for string theory] Reference

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss physical mechanisms through which such defects may be again rendered metastable, and thus may contribute to cosmology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embedded in Montreal] Reference

Observations of (their) past show a tendency towards the collapse of cold, randomly distributed gasses and cold photons into hotter, denser, metastable arrangements that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incompatible Arrows, III: Lewis Carroll] Reference

Many questions about the metastable state of water could be answered using this new "tree.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Piehole] Reference

But the attempt of the critics of string theory to dictate Nature how many metastable states.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

The susceptibility of a circuit to reaching this metastable state can be described using a probabilistic equation.    From Wordnik.com.  [EE Times-Asia] Reference

Rivelles liked David Shih's and Ken Intriligator's talks most of all - about metastable vacua in supersymmetric theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

Quite possibly, there are also many metastable long-lived de Sitter universes but our certainty is not as high in this case.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

It's a metastable location, so anything there has to be actively positioned with equipment we don't have or know how to build.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

It is also known that UCB has multiple physical states, including monomers, oligomers, metastable aggregates and sedimentable particles.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

So does everyone else; the deconstruction you’ve established up to now is only metastable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counting Up, Counting Down]