Stability - Natural Sciences

Natural Sciences

  • Band of stability, in physics, the scatter distribution of isotopes which do not decay
  • Chemical stability, occurring when a substance is in a dynamic chemical equilibrium with its environment
  • Thermal stability of a chemical compound
  • stability of a chemical complex
  • Convective instability, a meteorological condition
  • Ecological stability, measure of the probability of a population returning quickly to a previous state, or not going extinct
  • Plasma stability, a measure of how likely a perturbation in a plasma is to be damped out

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