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.
Describing the thermodynamic equilibrium conditions where a liquid coexists with two solid phases.
A material that has the composition of a eutectic mixture or eutectic alloy
The temperature of the eutectic point
Describing the phase-change reaction of an alloy in which, on cooling, a single solid phase transforms into two other solid phases.
An alloy of a composition that undergoes the eutectoid transformation.
Of maximum fusibility; - said of an alloy or mixture which has the lowest melting point which it is possible to obtain by the combination of the given components.
a mixture of substances having a composition providing the minimum melting point ofr mixtures of those substances. Called also a eutectic mixture.