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superheated
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  • The space shuttle was damaged when superheated gases generated during reentry entered the ship through a breach in the insulation.
    superheated = heated beyond the temperature where state normally changes
  • Southern venti swirled through the hall in clouds of red dust and superheated air.†  (source)
  • Oceans of superheated air swelling like warm skin rising to a lover's touch.†  (source)
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  • During the summer months, however, superheated air rises from the scorched earth like bubbles from the bottom of a boiling kettle, rushing heavenward in turbulent convection currents.†  (source)
  • Instead of heat going to the water, some would get stored in the air, which could superheat and melt the bag.†  (source)
  • It was a high—speed frigate furnished with superheating equipment that allowed the tension of its steam to build to seven atmospheres.†  (source)
  • The entire gate began to glow, as if the metal had become superheated, and its double doors swung inward, revealing a field of stars.†  (source)
  • My body began to superheat; I was in so much pain my organs seemed to be dissolving into molecules, my skin glowing and steaming.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • "Okay for now, I think," Max gasped, realizing his lungs were seared from all the smoke and superheated air.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • It hissed as it ate through the material; he felt the sting as it burned his skin like a dozen tiny superheated needles.†  (source)
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