Eutectic vs. Azeotrope — What's the Difference?

Of, relating to, or formed at the lowest possible temperature of solidification for any mixture of specified constituents. Used especially of an alloy whose melting point is lower than that of any other alloy composed of the same constituents in different proportions.

An azeotrope () or a constant heating point mixture is a mixture of two or more liquids whose proportions cannot be altered or changed by simple distillation. This happens when an azeotrope is boiled, the vapour has the same proportions of constituents as the unboiled mixture.

Exhibiting the constitution or properties of such a solid.

A liquid mixture of two or more substances that boils at a constant characteristic temperature lower or higher than any of its components and that retains the same composition in the vapor state as in the liquid state.

A eutectic mixture, solution, or alloy.

(physics) A mixture of two or more substances whose liquid and gaseous forms have the same composition (at a certain pressure); the substances cannot be separated by normal distillation.

The eutectic temperature.

To create a mixture of this kind.

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 a eutectic mixture or eutectic alloy

The temperature of the eutectic point

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.

A mixture of substances having a minimum melting point