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A LIQUID may be heated beyond its normal boiling point without vaporizing by isolating the liquid from solid container surfaces and by minimizing the number of solid impurities in the sample. This avoids imperfectly wetted solids which act as sites for the formation of vapour cavities. One successful technique1−4 is to heat a droplet of the liquid rising slowly in a host liquid in which the droplet is nearly insoluble, but the application of this technique to the superheating of water has suffered from problems of repeatability.
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APFEL, R. Water Superheated to 279.5° C at Atmospheric Pressure. Nature Physical Science 238, 63–64 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci238063a0
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