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supercooling [¦sü·pər′kül·iŋ] (thermodynamics) Cooling of a substance below the temperature at which a change of state would ordinarily take place without such a change of state occurring, for example, the cooling of a liquid below its freezing point without freezing taking place; this results in a metastable state. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the seeder-feeder relationship, ice crystals are generated from aloft in the seeder cloud and fall into a lower-level feeder cloud containing supercooled water. Five proposals are in the works to have tankers bring liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to the Southern California coast, where the supercooled liquid would be converted back into gas and then piped to the region's existing natural gas network. The online edition of the Times of London reported last May that Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, visited the Arctic ice cap on Royal Navy submarines and discovered "that one of the 'engines' driving the Gulf Stream--the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea--has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength. |
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