Polymeric materials, with their various hierarchies of microstructure, may have metastable states present due to small phase size, composition, external fields and other causes.

具有多重微结构层次的聚合物体系可因小的相尺寸、组成、外场或其它因素而呈现亚稳态。

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Products sold not only the size of the city, but also exported to Europe and the United States, the Middle East and other regions.

产品不仅销往全国各大小城市，还远销欧美、中东等地区。

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If there is any state that looks unusually bad it is Virginia: for its size, it executes five times as many people as other states and reverses only a quarter the number of cases (see chart).

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That figure is more than twice the size of the bailout, which had been repeatedly delayed amid concerns from other EU states that the close business and banking ties with Russia made Cyprus a conduit for money-laundering.

FORBES: Links 19 March: And Finally We Have A Sensible Suggestion About Cyprus