Eutectics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 158 anagrams from letters in eutectics (cceeisttu).
1880-85; Greek eútēkt(os) easily melted, dissolved (eu- eu- + tēktós melted) + -ic
C is the eutectic point at which the two solid isomerides can exist side by side in contact with the solution.
The point X, therefore, does not correspond with a eutectic point, but with a transition point.
When the eutectic point is reached, the temperature remains constant, until all the liquid has solidified.
From our curve we should expect a eutectic mixture with about 35 per cent.
At the eutectic point (15.6), these two solid phases could co-exist with the liquid phase.
In this way we get the freezing point curve Ak1B for the binary system; k1; being an eutectic point.
After this the temperature again falls, until it again remains constant at the eutectic point c.
The length of time during which the temperature remains constant at the point c, depends, of course, on the eutectic solution.
In this case the freezing point may rise (as in the case of silver and zinc), and one of the eutectic points will be absent.
If the initial composition of the magma is represented by a point between the two eutectic points, orthoclase will separate first.