The reactor was in an unstable configuration that was clearly outside the safe operating envelope established by the designers.

The enzyme in question has a unique, highly unstable configuration.

The unstable configuration that results makes one vulnerable to a cascade of change.

Traders said that the market was now in an unstable configuration that would allow price movements, once begun, to march ahead quickly.

On the course of a reaction, energy needs to be put in, this activation energy drives the reactants from a stable state to a highly energetic unstable configuration.

The technology relies on an unstable mechanical configuration that forms part of the electrical circuit.

Double beta decay would occur in seemingly stable nuclei put together in a slightly unstable configuration.

Glaciers in unstable configurations, causing more weather.

Since 2010 he has been publishing on an evolutionary theory of non-adaptive selection (selective disappearance of unstable configurations).

Virtual universes of fractional dimensions continua with little more than abstract reality would be created in deliberately unstable configurations.