verb
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To heat a liquid above its boiling point
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To heat a vapour above its saturation point
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To heat too much, to overheat.
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to superheat an oven
adjective
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Heated above the critical point
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Heated above the boiling point
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Exceedingly intense or emotional
Examples of superheated in a Sentence
The simplest modes of preparing pure glycerin are based on the saponification of fats, either by alkalis or by superheated steam, and on the circumstance that, although glycerin cannot be distilled by itself under the ordinary pressure without decomposition, it can be readily volatilized in a current of superheated steam.
The steam is superheated and may thus be heated to any desired temperature without increase of pressure, which would be liable to damage the still.
The corresponding decomposition of a glyceride into an acid and glycerin takes place when the glyceride is distilled in superheated steam, or by boiling in water mixed with a suitable proportion of caustic potash or soda.
The cheaper mottled and brown soaps have for their basis bone fat, obtained by treating bones with superheated steam or other methods.
Direct firing is used for the second boiling of the soap mixture; but for this superheated steam may with advantage be substituted, either applied by a steam-jacket round the pan or by a closed coil of pipe within it.
Saturated steam is steam in contact with liquid water at a temperature which is the boiling point of the water and condensing point of the steam; superheated steam is steam out of contact with water heated above this temperature.
The sulphur is dissolved by superheated water forced down pipes, and the water with sulphur in solution is forced upward by hot air pressure through other pipes; the sulphur comes, 99% pure, to the surface of the ground, where it is cooled in immense bins, and then broken up and loaded directly upon cars for shipment.
It is a white solid, which combines with gaseous ammonia to form SrC1 2.8NH 3, and when heated in superheated steam it decomposes with evolution of hydrochloric acid.
The residue is then heated in a current of superheated steam, in which the boric acid volatilizes and distils over.
He suggested that the high value for S found by Regnault might be due to the presence of damp in his superheated steam, or, on the other hand, that the assumption that steam at low temperatures followed the law pv = R0 might be erroneous.
The specific volumes of superheated vapours may, however, (19) be measured with a satisfactory degree of approximation.
It is found by these methods that the behaviour of superheated vapours closely resembles that of noncondensible gases, and it is a fair inference that similar behaviour would be observed up to the saturation-point if surface condensation could be avoided.
This sulphide is then heated in a current of moist carbon dioxide, barium carbonate being formed, BaS+H 2 O+CO 2 =BaCO 3 +H 2 S, and finally the carbonate is decomposed by a current of superheated steam, BaC03+H20 = Ba(OH) 2 + C02, leavingaresidue of the hydroxide.
In 1952 her boiler was adapted to take a superheater, which led to all locos receiving a superheated boilers on their next refit.
The steam in this running tank would supply superheated steam to the steam engine.
The accumulator, which is similar in principle to the thermal storage system of Druitt Halpin, is a closed vessel completely filled with water, which condenses the excess of steam during the winding period, and becoming superheated maintains the supply to the turbine when the main engine is standing.
Hot gases from the furnace will pass to a boiler, which will convert the energy from the gases into superheated steam.
Then we go down into the superheated water inside the reactor.
As the blast came from the Sun so too did thousands of millions of tons of superheated gas.
The air around us is composed of superheated vapor.
The water is superheated in a boiler, while pumps keep it moving through the coils in the floors.
Five metal compounds, superheated and then fused into one single alloy, are used to create the C-5 frame material.