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In natural English speech, "unstable" appears in contexts such as: "This fact hints at an important law that governs our void, the law of stability. Unstable blobs fall apart and vanish. Stable ones endure. Now, watch what happens if we speed this up dramatically, maybe a couple of years per second, maybe even a couple million.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/ʌnˈsteɪ.bəl/

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This fact hints at an important law that governs our void, the law of stability.

Unstable blobs fall apart and vanish. Stable ones endure.

Now, watch what happens if we speed this up dramatically, maybe a couple of years per second, maybe even a couple million.

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adjective

Not stable.

“unstable foundation”

adjective

Having a strong tendency to change.

“The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.”

Synonyms:labile

verb

To release (an animal) from a stable.

“When the last tune of music floated from the fleet, he unstabled his quarter horse and headed for the coastal road leading west and north on his circuit.”

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