The solution is therefore “supersaturated” with salt. Supersaturation is an unstable state, and the salt molecules will begin to crystallize back into a solid.

These and other drops on the flower-pot slowly formed a film of 7-atom salt. Stirred the solution with a dry twig ... contain crystals of the various salts which form supersaturated solutions.

A supersaturated salt solution is a liquid in which, because of special circumstances, more salt is dissolved than would be possible under normal circumstances. Important findings for restorers.

THE history of the various views held by different experimenters on the nuclear action of substances in exciting the sudden crystallisation of a supersaturated solution, has been already so well ...

By combining a salt solution with ethanol, Frito-Lay scientists found a rapid way to transform an undersaturated salt solution into a supersaturated solution—precisely the conditions needed for ...

In the 1890s, the German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald recognized that supersaturated solutions often preferred to transform into a metastable intermediate phase rather than a thermodynamically stable ...

Instead, the solutions became super-saturated with salt and crystals nucleated either in the chamber (for Na 2 SO 4-B) or at the liquid/air interface (for NaCl, KCl, and Na 2 SO 4-A). These latter ...

Tablespoon of salt. Tablespoon of oil. Four cups. ... Under certain conditions such as those in this activity supersaturated solutions will give up what has been dissolved into them at a far ...

IntroductionCommercial heat packs (containing iron and water, or supersaturated sodium acetate) and cold packs (various ammonium salts) ... The temperature change is apparently the heat of solution of ...

Metaphor watch: Super-saturated solution Imagine pouring a powder into a liquid until it becomes a solid. Written by Britton Manasco, Contributor April 24, 2005 at 9:26 p.m. PT ...