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supercooled
  1. (context physics English) cooled below the transition temperature without the transition occurring v

  2. (en-past of: supercool)

Usage examples of "supercooled".

Interactions and reactions took place on the supercooled target that had never been seen before.

Antarctic ice sheet: below them stretch the still, supercooled waters of Lake Vostok.

I am also leery of the Carson factor: We must avoid the extermination of any extraterrestrial life-form, from the smallest virus to some supercooled Plutonian blob, not only for its own sake but for the wealth of genetic material contained within it, material that would have evolved over eons, developing unique abilities for dealing with its problems and, by extension, our own.

I gather that the technique used was to inflate a large plastic bag with supercooled air, and spray water over it until a crust of ice formed.

The back of my throat seemed to have been liberally painted with supercooled glue.

He wore nothing in the way of a weapon, so he hefted a slim, salt-stained cylinder full of supercooled argon and swung it in the general direction of the onrushing Merced.

The walls were supercooled, and thus provided some relief, He tried to wipe the sweat away from his forehead, but it was a futile gesture.

Dicky, every schoolboy knows that glass is a supercooled liquid which, under impact from a fast-moving missile, bends until it fractures in long cracks radiating from the point of impact.