Meaning & use
supersaturate
To cause a solution to contain more dissolved substance than it normally could hold at a given temperature.
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Heating the water allowed the chemists to supersaturate it with sugar.
The solution was supersaturated, so a single crystal triggered rapid formation of more.
A note on using this word
Supersaturate is mainly a chemistry term describing an unstable state that easily leads to crystallization or precipitation.
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