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a liquid heated beyond the point where it would normally boil without the boilingor:
a vapor heated to such a degree that the temperature may be lowered or its pressure increased without the conversion of any of the gas into liquid
- They want to produce electricity by using geothermal energy to cycle water that would be superheated and drive a turbine.
- The space shuttle was damaged when superheated gases generated during reentry entered the ship through a breach in the insulation.
- It hissed as it ate through the material; he felt the sting as it burned his skin like a dozen tiny superheated needles.Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
- Southern venti swirled through the hall in clouds of red dust and superheated air.Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
- Instead of heat going to the water, some would get stored in the air, which could superheat and melt the bag.Andy Weir -- The Martian
- Nobody had sufficient understanding of such matters to suggest that the rebreathed, superheated atmosphere of the mill room was responsible.Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
- The spotlight winked out, and a second later, the explosion, and a superheated blast of air rumbled into the room.Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
- Max and the others were flung back by the rushing backlash of superheated air that singed their eyes and set their clothes to smoking.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- "Okay for now, I think," Max gasped, realizing his lungs were seared from all the smoke and superheated air.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- Tuk and I huddle in the hot cave of our tent, osmosis masks filtering enough cool oxygen out of the superheated, smoky air to allow us to breathe.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- They glowed like superheated gas as they raced through the ballroom, circling the pillars that surrounded the dance floor.Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
- It was a high–speed frigate furnished with superheating equipment that allowed the tension of its steam to build to seven atmospheres.Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- The thimble was a crucial part of architect Frank Burnham's design, meant to shield the surrounding wooden walls from the superheated gases exiting the stack.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- She sees the fireball climbing, the superheated sphere of burning gas that can blind a person with its beauty, its dripping christblood colors, solar golds and reds.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- Fire and water collided, superheated steam, and I shot upward from the heart of the volcano in a huge explosion, just one piece of flotsam thrown free by a million pounds of pressure.Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- We share the day's rumors and tell bad jokes and push back against the silence inside our own heads, the place where the never-ending voiceless scream rises like the superheated air above a lava flow.Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
- The leaves are fully out, the irises are in bloom, there's a heat wave; the gymnasium heats up like an oven and we all sit in there, superheated, writing away, while the gymnasium exudes its smell of bygone athletes.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- A Martian came across the fields about midday, laying the stuff with a jet of superheated steam that hissed against the walls, smashed all the windows it touched, and scalded the curate's hand as he fled out of the front room.H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
- The boat fairly flew; we sweltered side by side in the stagnant superheated air; the smell of mud, of mush, the primeval smell of fecund earth, seemed to sting our faces; till suddenly at a bend it was as if a great hand far away had lifted a heavy curtain, had flung open un immense portal.Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
- Huge storm clouds were circling over Westgate while in the south Max glimpsed a pluming cloud of superheated smoke.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
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