In the absence of a site nucleating the formation of ice crystals, the leaves remain in a supercooled liquid state, safely reaching temperatures of − 4 ° C to − 12 ° C.

In a mixture of three or more ionic species of dissimilar size and shape, crystallization can be so difficult that the liquid can easily be supercooled into a glass.

If the cooling is sufficiently rapid ( relative to the characteristic crystallization time ) then crystallization is prevented and instead the disordered atomic configuration of the supercooled liquid is frozen into the solid state at T < sub > g </ sub >.

It exhibits an atomic structure close to that observed in the supercooled liquid phase but displays all the mechanical properties of a solid.

Although the atomic structure of glass shares characteristics of the structure in a supercooled liquid, glass tends to behave as a solid below its glass transition temperature.

The surface of a glass is often smooth since during glass formation the molecules of the supercooled liquid are not forced to dispose in rigid crystal geometries and can follow surface tension, which imposes a microscopically smooth surface.

At room temperature, honey is a supercooled liquid, in which the glucose will precipitate into solid granules.

Since honey normally exists below its melting point, it is a supercooled liquid.

Thermodynamically, the supercooled liquid is in the metastable state with respect to the crystalline phase, and it is likely to crystallize suddenly.

File: Richard Feynman Nobel. jpg | Richard Feynman ( 1918-1988 ): developed the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, developed the Feynman diagram representing subatomic particle behavior.

The sublimation pressure can be calculated from extrapolated liquid vapor pressures ( of the supercooled liquid ) if the heat of fusion is known.

These clouds are formed from ice crystals, supercooled water droplets, or liquid water droplets.

This is because very small droplets of water can remain liquid well below the freezing point, a state known as supercooled water.

Unlike other cirrus clouds, cirrocumulus include a small amount of liquid water droplets, although these are in a supercooled state.

This is often seen as counter-intuitive, since the temperature of the material does not rise during freezing, except if the liquid were supercooled.

By contrast, if no solid nucleus is present as a liquid cools, it tends to become supercooled.

These three types occur also when ice forms on the surface of an aircraft when it flies through a cloud made of supercooled water liquid droplets.

Contact between the snow crystal and the supercooled droplets results in freezing of the liquid droplets onto the surface of the crystals.

Seeding of clouds requires that they contain supercooled liquid water — that is, liquid water colder than zero degrees Celsius.

The formation of ice particles in supercooled clouds allows those particles to grow at the expense of liquid droplets.

Cloud seeding has been shown to be effective in altering cloud structure and size and in converting supercooled liquid water to ice particles.

Technically speaking, it is not a type of frost, since usually supercooled water drops are involved, in contrast to the formation of hoar frost, in which water vapour condenses slowly and directly.

It is composed of ice crystals or supercooled water droplets appearing as small unshaded round masses or flakes in groups or lines with ripples like sand on a beach ( C < sub > H </ sub > 9 for all species ).

Changing climate is expected to alter the relationship between cloud ice and supercooled cloud water, which in turn would influence the microphysics of the cloud which would result in changes in the radiative properties of the cloud.

The liquid-glass transition is observed in many polymers and other liquids that can be supercooled far below the melting point of the crystalline phase.

Freezing rain is also caused by supercooled droplets.

The uppermost layer of the ocean is supercooled to slightly below the freezing point, at which time tiny ice platelets, known as frazil ice, form.

Within the month, Schaefer's colleague, the noted atmospheric scientist Dr. Bernard Vonnegut ( brother of novelist Kurt Vonnegut ) is credited with discovering another method for " seeding " supercooled cloud water.

The reason that tropical cyclones have little supercooled water is that the updrafts within such a system are too weak to prevent water from either falling as rain or freezing.

In the supercooled state, a false vacuum is produced.

When no CCNs are present, water vapour can be supercooled below 0 ° C ( 32 ° F ) before droplets spontaneously form ( this is the basis of the cloud chamber for detecting subatomic particles ).

As the droplets rise and the temperature goes below freezing, they become supercooled water and will freeze on contact with condensation nuclei.

Hail growth becomes vanishingly small when air temperatures fall below as supercooled water droplets become rare at these temperatures.

When the supercooled drops strike ground below or anything else below ( power lines, tree branches, aircraft ), they instantly freeze, forming a thin film of ice, hence freezing rain.

When the supercooled drops strike ground, power lines, tree branches, aircraft, or anything else below, they instantly freeze, forming a thin film of ice, hence freezing rain.

A supercooled liquid will stay in a liquid state below the normal freezing point when it has little opportunity for nucleation ; that is, if it is pure enough and has a smooth enough container.

When ice-nine comes into contact with liquid water below 45. 8 ° C ( thus effectively becoming supercooled ), it acts as a seed crystal and causes the solidification of the entire body of water, which quickly crystallizes as more ice-nine.

Freezing drizzle occurs when supercooled drizzle drops land on a surface whose temperature is below freezing.

Liquids cooled below the maximum heterogeneous nucleation temperature ( melting temperature ), but which are above the homogeneous nucleation temperature ( pure substance freezing temperature ) are said to be supercooled.

If there are no impurities then the liquid is said to be pure and can be supercooled below its melting point without becoming a solid.

The requirement is that the liquid ( the molten material ) be undercooled, aka supercooled, below the freezing point of the solid.