Including: Eutectic Solid, Eutectic Phase, Eutectic Reaction
A eutectic reaction is a three-phase reaction, by which, on cooling, a liquid transforms into two solid phases at the same time. It is a phase reaction, but a special one. For example: liquid alloy becomes a solid mixture of alpha and beta at a specific temperature (rather than over a temperature range). The eutectic solid is commonly lamellar (stripy) in form.
Associated terms: Hypo-Eutectic, Hyper-Eutectic, Eutectic Point, Eutectic Line, Alloy, Lamellar, Phase
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