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ALTHOUGH it is well known that liquids may be supersaturated with gases, the extent to which a gas may be retained in supersaturated solution does not seem to be generally realised, and no quantitative information about the phenomenon is given in most textbooks on physical chemistry.
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RICHARDSON, T., BAILEY, K. Supersaturation of Liquids with Gases. Nature 131, 762 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131762a0
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