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Recent Examples of supercooled
Adjective
The liquid is trapped — or corralled — and can remain liquid far into the supercooled zone.—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Dec. 2025
The state could spend more than $60 million to expand and upgrade the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and eliminate a space crunch that has risked its accreditation and led to the office storing bodies awaiting autopsy in refrigerated containers behind the Farmington building.
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Dave Altimari,
Hartford Courant,
21 Feb. 2026
So as well as anyone, Humphries can paint a picture of an ideal Olympic run down the refrigerated track in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, in February.
At the Port Authority Bus Terminal expansion, half a mile uptown, Staller trained his lens on giant tubes of steel rimmed with teeth—core drill sections, frosted with snow, like colossal ziti topped with mozzarella cheese—which a crane was hoisting into place.
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Nick Paumgarten,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
Serve your cake or cupcakes frosted with cream cheese frosting at room temperature for the best taste and texture.
During the individually quick-frozen process in which foods are passed through a freezing chamber, berries are picked at peak freshness, washed and frozen, sealing in the nutrients, experts said.
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The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
Whether your climate is warm or not, consider ordering pre-chilled bulbs.
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Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 Feb. 2026
Just a few hours into a pre-launch test called a wet dress rehearsal in early February, launch controllers found that enough super-chilled liquid hydrogen fuel was leaking at the launchpad to prompt safety concerns.
My heart eyes for the beets and the overall experience at Rose's almost blinded me from noticing the dressing was hardly a caramel, but rather a congealed marinade with a grainy mouthfeel.
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Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
31 Oct. 2025
In particular, the bacon bits were chilled and all stuck together in one big, congealed lump along the inside of the bowl.
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Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025