Supersaturated solution

participle supersaturating, simple past and past participle supersaturated) To cause a solution to have more solute dissolved in it than it can stably contain

From super- +‎ saturated. supersaturated (not comparable) (chemistry, physics, of a solution) More concentrated than is normally possible. (physics, of

+‎ mættet (“saturated”) overmættet (neuter overmættet, plural and definite singular attributive overmættede) (chemistry, of a solution) supersaturated

having a higher concentration in terms of sum of partial pressures than the ambient pressure. desupersaturation supersaturated condition of a solution

unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom. 1989, Irving Singer, The Nature of Love: Soloman's