undersaturationn.
The state of being undersaturated.
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undersaturation1957
1913 S. J. Shand in Geol. Mag. 5th Decade 10 510 It will also be desirable to distinguish partsaturated rocks..from wholly unsaturated ones; as a general term to cover both partsaturation and unsaturation we may employ undersaturation.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. ix. 595 Both supersaturations and undersaturations are likely to be recorded at the time of vernal circulation.
1978 Nature 19 Oct. 639/1 Magmas with increasing degrees of undersaturation can be produced only by progressively decreased amounts of partial melting of a peridotitic upper mantle if H2O is the only volatile component present.
1981 Jrnl. Chem. Physics 74 5243/2 The theory predicts evaporation rates at any degree of undersaturation.
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