Supercooling

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Supercooling is the process of lowering the temperature of a liquid or a gas below its freezing point, without it becoming a solid. A liquid below its standard freezing point will crystallize in the presence of a seed crystal or nucleus around which a crystal structure can form. However, lacking any such nucleus, the liquid phase can be maintained all the way down to the temperature at which crystal homogeneous nucleation occurs.

Supercooling is the process of lowering the temperature of a liquid or a gas below its freezing point, without it becoming a solid.

A liquid below its standard freezing point will crystallize in the presence of a seed crystal or nucleus around which a crystal structure can form.

However, lacking any such nucleus, the liquid phase can be maintained all the way down to the temperature at which crystal homogeneous nucleation occurs.

Also see

• Heat transfer
• Liquid
• Solid
• Vapor
• Phase change

Reference

• Wikipedia Super Cooling [1]

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