What is "supersaturate"

Usage examples of "supersaturate".

The tri corder was programmed to give her a signal every hour, then at the final thirty minutes, ten minutes, and a big alarm the last minute before the explosion, to give her time to hyperventilate, supersaturate her tissues with oxygen, a last-ditch technique she had discussed with Red bay.

The air is supersaturated with anxiety, leaving the taste of metal on his tongue.

Miniature drifts had formed in shifting chevrons a few centimeters across, growing from the chips like crystals growing in a supersaturated solution.

Each exhalation condensed into a cloud of vapor that hung in the supersaturated air, refusing to dissipate.

DOOM PATROL is less a surreal fantasy than it is a naturalistic rendering of our supersaturated cultural space.

Certainly wizards often gathered clouds and supersaturated them to create rain for crops and drinking water, but nobody ever made snow.

It was as if Mother had dropped a grain of dust into a supersaturated solution, and a crystal had immediately formed.

Behind the asteroid a tremendous vacuum formed, which the surrounding atmosphere rushed to fill, creating a tail of supersaturated air from above the Arctic Ocean and a wake of wind which curled off, forming row upon row of super cyclones like giant eddies behind the paddle of a boat.

The constant storms create a supersaturated electrical and magnetic field.

He was using a binocular microscope to observe crystals forming on the surface of a supersaturated solution in the well of a microscope slide.

But once that last clause no longer obtained, once world hunger and the arms race and death and pain themselves were seen to be soluble problems, humanity leaped to embrace telepathy with such ardor that it was as though Jacques LeBlanc's golden crown had been a seed crystal dropped into the heart of a great supersaturated solution, which collapsed at once into a structure, a pattern, of awesome complexity and beauty.