Eutectic vs Monotectic - What's the difference?
eutectic | monotectic |
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.
(chemistry) Describing the thermodynamic equilibrium conditions where a liquid coexists with two solid phases.
A material that has the composition of an eutectic mixture or eutectic alloy
The temperature of the eutectic point
Describes the isothermal reversible change of a liquid phase to form a second liquid phase plus a solid phase during cooling
As adjectives the difference between eutectic and monotectic
is that eutectic is 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 while monotectic is describes the isothermal reversible change of a liquid phase to form a second liquid phase plus a solid phase during cooling.As a noun eutectic
is a material that has the composition of an eutectic mixture or eutectic alloy.eutectic
English
(Eutectic system)Adjective
(-)- 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.