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1. Thermodynamic Stability

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   Metastability and Kinetic Barriers
   A system may appear stable but exist in a state that is not the global minimum of the free energy landscape. Such a state is termed metastable. Metastability is a kinetic phenomenon, where the system is trapped in a local minimum separated from the globally stable state by an energy barrier ($\Delta E^\ddagger$).
   The probability of escaping a metastable state is governed by th…