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Carbonated water is a supersaturated solution of carbon dioxide gas in water. At the elevated pressure in the bottle, more carbon dioxide can dissolve in water than at atmospheric pressure. At atmospheric pressure, the carbon dioxide gas escapes very slowly from the supersaturated liquid. This process may be accelerated by the presence of nucleation sites within the solution, such as small bubbles, caused by shaking the bottle, or another solute, such as sugar powder or a widget. A Diet Coke and Mentos eruption is a rather extreme example. Some beverage products such as ales and stouts e.g. Guinness rely on this effect to produce the 'head' on the surface of the poured product. This has led to the invention of the widget, a device developed to produce enhanced bubble seeding in liquids, especially with dual supersaturated gas phases (carbon dioxide and nitrogen) (see patents by Fitzpatrick and Kuzniarski).

Scuba divers' tissues become saturated with breathing gases during a dive. Supersaturation is a theoretical term describing a state in which the tension of a dissolved gas is greater than its inspired partial pressure when the diver ascends, in contrast to Henry's law.[1] If the diver ascends too fast, these gases form bubbles, resulting in decompression sickness. The term was popularized by J.S. Haldane.

In air that is supersaturated, water droplets may precipitate upon being disturbed. This can be observed in a cloud chamber. In the more general context a precipitate may form.

Supersaturated solutions of sugar and water are commonly used to make rock candy.

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Give Example of supersaturated solution?

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What will happen to a supersaturated solution?

The solute will eventually fall out of a supersaturated solution


What happens to a supersaturated solution?

The solute will eventually fall out of a supersaturated solution


How can you help a saturated solution become a supersaturated solution?

Adding more solute the solution become supersaturated.


What is a non example of supersaturated solution?

A non-example of a supersaturated solution is a saturated solution, where the solvent has dissolved the maximum amount of solute at a given temperature and no additional solute can dissolve. For instance, if you have a solution of salt in water that has reached its saturation point, any additional salt added will remain undissolved at the bottom. This contrasts with a supersaturated solution, which contains more dissolved solute than typically possible under equilibrium conditions.


If you cool the solution slowly and sugar does not settle out as it cools you know the solution is?

Supersaturated


How can a solution be supersaturated?

A solution become supersaturated when the limitt of solute solubility at a given temperature is exceeded.


Supersaturated solution of NaCl is the result of?

A supersaturated solution has a concentration of solute greater than the solubility at a specific temperature.


What happens when you add solute to supersaturated solution?

The solute can re-form as a solid.


What happens is you add additional solid NaCl after the maximum solubility has been reached?

A supersaturated solution is obtained.


How can you dissolve solutes in an already saturated solution?

Probably with enough heat. Solutions can become supersaturated. "Supersaturated solutions are prepared or result when some condition of a saturated solution is changed, for example temperature, volume (as by evaporation), or pressure." -Wikipedia as a source


How can a saturated solution become supersaturated?

How a saturated solution can become supersaturated?