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supercooling: a standalone construct

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Materials science

keeping a liquid below its freezing point without crystallizing, because nucleation of the solid has not yet happened.

In materials science, supercooling refers to keeping a liquid below its freezing point without crystallizing, because nucleation of the solid has not yet happened. This meaning comes from Turnbull (1952) in The Journal of Chemical Physics.[1]

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References

  1. Turnbull, D. (1952). Kinetics of Solidification of Supercooled Liquid Mercury Droplets. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 20(3), 411-424. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1700435

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