Note: It is obtained from fats by saponification, or, on a large scale, by the action of superheated steam.
Superheated steam, steam heated to a temperature higher than the boiling point corresponding to its pressure.
Dry steam, steam which does not contain water held in suspension mechanically; -- sometimes applied to superheated steam.
Through a fissure in the rock gas or superheated steam escapes and divides the water, just as bubbles do on a smaller scale.
Over vast tracts of the Park plateau, the rocks are entirely decomposed to unknown depths by the ascending superheated vapors.
Superheated Steam for Steam Turbines--Experience in using superheated steam in connection with steam turbines has shown that it leads to economy and that it undoubtedly pays to use superheated steam in place of saturated steam.
There is a marked tendency in modern practice toward higher steam velocities, particularly in the case of superheated steam.
With the saving in fuel by the reduction of heat consumption of an engine indicated, it remains to be shown the effect of the use of superheated steam on such heat consumption.
The above estimates are on the basis of a thoroughly dry saturated steam or steam just at the point of being superheated or containing a few degrees of superheat.
The conductivities of air, carbonic acid gas and superheated steam, as affected by the temperature, in English units, are: Conductivity of air .
A number of small openings for the liberation of steam from the superheated water will remedy this difficulty.
The inventor, in explaining his invention, says that when water is superheated it becomes as explosive as gunpowder, exploding by bursting into steam from a reduction of pressure.
The sky beyond the enclosing mountains has the cambric blueness of the superheated interior, but directly overhead it has depth and immensity of colour unequalled except along the Mediterranean.
Here a warm current of air travelling steadily from the superheated valleys carries the life zone higher, there a defiant bony ridge drops it a few thousand feet, but the relative arrangement of species does not greatly vary.
He invented an oscillating engine and a screw propeller; he took out a patent for using superheated steam, as well as for wrought-iron ships and wrought-iron floating docks; but he left it to others to introduce these several inventions.
As the ends of the pipes get red hot the water is converted into superheated steam, which being under high pressure soon raises the chamber to baking heat, say 450 deg.
So fluid was this superheated lava that recent flows have been traced for more than fifty miles.
When superheated and emitted from many vents, this easily melted lava builds great plateaus, such as that of Iceland.
Superheated steam decomposes calcium chloride with more difficulty than magnesium chloride and with greater ease than barium chloride (Kuhnheim).
A solution of ammonia in water has many applications in the arts and industries; it is used in medicine, and is an indispensable laboratory reagent.
In some cases the liberation of ammonia is accomplished by blowingsuperheated steam into the liquor, which sets free the ammonia which is combined as carbonate, sulphide, and sulpho-cyanide, but not that which is present as chloride.
This is recovered by treatment with benzine, and after that the bone is subjected to the action of superheated steam in order to convert cartilage into glue.
Moving into the superheated shrine, he assisted Sergt.
From here we could get no idea of what was going on, but we were able to observe the majestic though noisy and superheated advance of several tanks.
We shall call, for distinction, the former Common Steam, and the latter Superheated Steam.
From this it received not only the heat necessary to convert it into common steam, but to give it the qualities of highly superheated steam.
In fact, by opening the stopcock the steam which was before superheated steam, has become common steam.
A faint smell--a smell of corruption, of ancient rottenness--arose on thesuperheated air.
This superheated air was difficult to breathe; it seemed to rise in waves from below.
Superheated steam is then admitted and the condenser is first heated to prevent the freezing of the fatty acids, passing over into same.
The stills are usually built of copper, which are heated by both direct fire and superheated steam.
Superheated steam is of great value where it can be produced economically, as even a slight degree insures the benefits to be derived from the use of dry steam.
A slug of water is obviously more dangerous when superheated steam is being employed, owing to the extreme temperature changes possible.
All about the green submarine there had been volumes of furiously-boiling water and dense clouds of vapor; now water and fog alike disappeared, converted into transparent superheated steam by the blasts of Nevian energy.
The header is a simple casting, divided by partition walls into saturated and superheated steam passages.
The dry pipe is in communication with the saturated steam passages and the steam pipes with the superheated steam passages and these are in communication with each other through the superheated units.
The steam will not be superheated because heated gases cannot come in contact with superheatedunits contained in the large flues.
Why is the superheated steam so much more economical on coal and water than the saturated steam?
It was already floating along in a nebulous superheated form capable of condensation by the loss of heat, but in particular capable of growth and development by the fall of surrounding matter upon the forming globe.
All this work, according to the New Astronomy, took place while our globe was still in a superheated condition.
The brilliant orange of superheated rock had quickly cooled in the near-absolute zero of airless space.
The sole illumination was provided by the fading red glow of the superheated panels that had been their targets and a few bright orange dots in the gaping holes that remained.
The use of superheated steam, however, still proved a drawback, and the Siemens engine has not been extensively used.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superheated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: heated; hot; overheated
