supersaturated's Usage Examples:

The setting of plaster of Paris depends on the fact that when 2CaS04 H20 is treated with water it dissolves, forming a supersaturated solution of CaS04.

From a supersaturated aqueous solution of borax, the pentahydrate, Na2B407.

The old idea of the circulating blood being supersaturated with lime salts which in some way had first become liberated from atrophying bones, and then deposited, to form calcified areas in different tissues will have to be given up, as there is no evidence that this " metastatic " calcification ever takes place.

The plaster is mixed with a quantity of water sufficient to make it into a smooth paste; this quantity of water is quite insufficient to dissolve the whole of it, but it dissolves a small part, and gives a supersaturated solution of CaSO 4.

But, if no solid be present initially, or if the cooling be rapid, the liquid of composition x becomes supersaturated and may cool till the supersaturation curve is reached at b, and a cloud of A crystals comes down.

From supersaturated solutions the form unstable at the temperature of the experiment is, as a rule, separated, especially on the introduction of a crystal of the unstable form; and, in some cases, similar inoculation of the fused substance is attended by the same result.

The surface of the water in the supersaturated soil is known as the "water-table" and is exemplified in water standing in a well.

Glauber's salt readily forms supersaturated solutions, in which crystallization takes place suddenly when a crystal of the salt is thrown in; the same effect is obtained by exposure to the air or by touching the solution with a glass rod.

Synonyms:

saturated, concentrated,

Antonyms:

loose, distributed, unsaturated,