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Definition of Subcooled
1. Adjective. (physics) Describing a liquid whose temperature is less that its saturation temperature at a particular pressure ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subcooled
1. subcool [v] - See also: subcool
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subcooled
Literary usage of Subcooled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by Smithsonian Institution (1908)
"Thus it is that from the assumption that subcooled water particles play an
important r61e in thunder clouds, there follow easily an<i naturally the series ..."
2. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by Smithsonian Institution (1908)
"Still there remains one great difficulty to be overcome in that it is not easy
to get any clear idea of the process of dissipation of the subcooled ..."
3. The Fundamental Principles of Chemistry: An Introduction to All Text-books by Wilhelm Ostwald (1909)
"We may, for example, imagine water to be subcooled so far that its content of
energy is reduced to a value ... Water cannot be subcooled below about —25°; ..."
4. The Development of the American Alligator (A. Mississippiensis) by Albert Moore Reese (1908)
"Thus it is that from the assumption that subcooled water particles play an
important rôle in thunder clouds, there follow easily and naturally the series of ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"... to distil and condense to the black, which has the smaller vapor pressure,
just as water subcooled below zero will vaporize and condense as ice. ..."
6. Circular by United States Weather Bureau, Confederate States of America Nitre and Mining Bureau (1920)
"The deposit is caused by minute globules of the subcooled water, sometimes having
a temperature as low as -10° C., freezing on contact with the solid ..."
7. Descriptive Meteorology by Willis Luther Moore (1910)
"When subcooled raindrops strike solid substances they cover these with a coating
of transparent ice, but when ordinary rain falls through great depths of ..."
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