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undersaturated

[¦ən·dər¦sach·ə‚rād·əd]
(petrology)
Pertaining to igneous rock composed of unsaturated minerals, that is, without free silica.
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At most sites the range was from a notional undersaturation to around the notional equilibrium value (Fig.
Effect of season and landscape position on the aluminium geochemistry of tropical acid sulfate soil leachate
in the tropics during times of high river discharge, the oxidation of fine organic material in an estuary's floodwaters commonly leads to oxygen undersaturation (Eyre and Balls 1999).
The distribution of nutrients, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll a in the upper Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica, a tropical estuary
Mixing of groundwaters may lead to pronounced undersaturation or supersaturation with respect to carbonate minerals, depending on temperature, pressure, and fluid composition, particularly pC[O.
Investigations of burial diagenesis in carbonate hydrocarbon reservoir rocks
Careful spotting of the blood sample on filter paper avoids inaccurate analysis results caused by undersaturation, oversaturation, and abraded specimens.
Use of tandem mass spectrometry for multianalyte screening of dried blood specimens from newborns
2] undersaturation were approximately of the same magnitude [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 4A OMITTED].
Linking planktonic biomass and metabolism to net gas fluxes in northern temperate lakes
The undersaturated DO concentrations at the Oligohaline site indicate that respiration outweighs production (as was found by Durand and Nadeau, 1972), although it is possible that groundwater of low DO contributed to this undersaturation.
STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF SUSPENDED ORGANIC MATTER IN THE MULLICA RIVER/GREAT BAY ESTUARY (SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY, U.S.A.)
Actual and anticipated petrographic effects of carbonate undersaturation in shallow seawater.
Evidence from the fossil record of an antipredatory exaptation: conchiolin layers in corbulid bivalves
African fig wasp communities: undersaturation and latitudinal gradients in species richness.
Influence of drainage connectivity, drainage area and regional species richness on fishes of the interior highlands in Arkansas
and outflow) have in conditioning the water column (Carmack and Wassmann 2006) throughout the year can be critical in determining the intensity of carbonate mineral undersaturation events on seasonal timescales.
State of the climate in 2013
2007), and this region is projected to experience severe undersaturation as early as 2050 (Gruber et al.
Development under elevated p[CO.sub.2] conditions does not affect lipid utilization and protein content in early life-history stages of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
calcite] is plotted on a log scale where zero indicates thermodynamic equilibrium with respect to CaCO3, a positive index indicates supersaturation, and a negative index indicates undersaturation.
Modeling the potential distribution of the invasive golden mussel Limnoperna fortunei in the upper Paraguay river system using limnological variables/Modelagem da distribuicao potencial do mexilhao dourado Limnoperna fortunei na Bacia do Alto Rio Paraguai usando variaveis limnologicas
Calcium concentration is very low, which is the result of ion exchange and precipitation of calcium carbonate causing later undersaturation of these waters with respect to carbonate minerals.
Salt source for dryland salinity--evidence from an upland catchment on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales

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