Sample sentences for SUPERHEATED

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Definition

a liquid heated beyond the point where it would normally boil without the boiling

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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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