superheat
noun
the state of being superheated.
superheated
Example Sentences
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And there is also increased concern about a tiny snail found only around superheated springs on the ocean floor.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
In a low-ceiling basement lined with combustible finishes—as Le Constellation seems to have been—a small fire can rapidly generate a superheated smoke layer near the ceiling that gradually expands downward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026
He added that as the galaxies orbited one another and moved toward the superheated gas cloud surrounding the Virgo cluster, which reaches temperatures about 200 times hotter than the Sun's surface, they experienced "ram pressure."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2025
The rhetoric around the two astronauts became superheated when Dutch astronaut Andreas Mogensen accused Musk of lying about the mission.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025
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.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
