Definition of supercool in US English:
supercool
verbˌsupərˈkulˌso͞opərˈko͞ol
[with object]Chemistry 1Cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without solidification or crystallization.
Example sentencesExamples
- We observed that in the spinning rotor water could be supercooled by several degrees below the freezing point.
- Other common supercooled liquids are ordinary glass and asphalt.
- The crystallization experiments were performed from 20°C to - 80°C since water molecules in confined spaces and/or adjacent to surfaces can be supercooled to very low temperatures.
- As water passes through the tube, tiny amounts of glass - itself a supercooled liquid - ‘dissolve’ into the water.
- Only four ship terminals capable of handling imports of supercooled liquid natural gas exist in the U.S., and they're at full capacity.
- 1.1Biology no object (of a living organism) survive body temperatures below the freezing point of water.
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- These plants exhibited reduced supercooling capacity, which caused them to freeze at warmer subzero temperatures compared to the controls.
- Hatchling painted turtles commonly overwinter within their natal nests and survive exposure to temperatures as low as - 12 [degrees] C by supercooling.
- Strategies that allow plants to survive freezing temperatures have been placed into two major categories: those plants that exhibit deep supercooling characteristics and those that exhibit extracellular freezing.
- The differences in supercooling capacities were attributed to interpopulational variation in cold hardiness, as putatively manifested by the presence of an ‘endogenous nucleator,’ in the Illinois turtles.
- Incidental observations made during the course of this investigation suggested that hatchling C. picta can survive supercooling to at least - 15 [degrees] C.
adjectiveˌsupərˈkulˌso͞opərˈko͞ol
informal Extremely attractive, impressive, or calm.
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- A truism these days among Internet angels and venture capitalists holds that a stellar management team is worth more than a supercool business plan.
- Or ‘Here's a movie that both academics bundled in film theories and teenagers on hot dates will find supercool.’
- I loved the laid-back, but still supercool environment.
- In the late 1940s, D' Amato bought a struggling Atlantic City restaurant with a backroom gambling operation, the 500 Club, and turned it into ‘ground zero for the supercool lifestyle.’
- So if your record collection is going to be the supercool soundtrack to your life that you need it to be, somebody - SOMEBODY - has to have considered that fact before they made it.
- Create an ice pyramid of shots or just serve up some supercool toasting glasses.
- She's supercool and super-beautiful but she's super-street too.