How to Use supercritical in a Sentence

supercritical

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• At that point, water goes supercritical and can hold five to 10 times as much energy as normal steam.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The turbine also has to work at the high pressures and temperatures required for supercritical CO2.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2017
• Like, the turbine blades, which need to be designed to work efficiently with the not quite liquid, not quite vapor consistency of supercritical CO2.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 26 May 2017
• In a supercritical brain, incoming signals would get lost in a frenzy of electrical activity, and the effect would be like trying to talk to a seizure victim.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2018
• The work requires an instrument called a supercritical fluid chromatograph, or SFC for short.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 15 June 2020
• All the water that percolates through the crust over volcanoes can heat up (sometimes to the point of becoming a supercritical fluid) and as those fluids move, the accompanying change in pressure can fracture the rocks around the fluid.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2015
• Some might assume rom-coms are a supercritical artform devoid of any distinct politics.
  — Louis Staples, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Dec. 2022
• Similarly, when humans are sleep deprived, their brains become supercritical, although a good night’s sleep can move them back toward the critical point.
  — John M. Beggs, Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2023
• The vibrant greenery — sticks and stems included — will be macerated and put into steel vats, their essence drained with something like supercritical carbon dioxide.
  — Chris Goldstein, Philly.com, 6 July 2017
• The supercritical carbon dioxide decaffeination method is similar to the direct solvent method except carbon dioxide is used as the solvent in this case, Clydesdale said.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2019
• In the half-second that the dome was closed, the plutonium had gone supercritical, initiating a nuclear chain reaction and releasing a lethal dose of gamma rays that damaged Slotin’s cells beyond repair.
  — Julian G. West, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2018
• In a supercritical network, the connections are so strong that almost all neurons are coupled together, which allows only one large assembly.
  — John M. Beggs, Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2023
• The deeper developers dig to reach supercritical temperatures, the more expensive the project becomes.
  — Justin Worland/reykjavik, Time, 25 July 2017
• However, as is the case with most material, Teflon behaves much differently under high pressure and when immersed in supercritical oxygen.
  — Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2020
• Dindal notes that destruction of chemicals using supercritical water oxidation has been around since the 1980s, used by agencies like the Department of Defense for dealing with chemical agents and stockpiles.
  — Jeff Kart, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• There are three main decaffeination processes used to strip coffee beans of their buzz: water processing, the direct solvent method, and supercritical carbon dioxide decaffeination.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2019
• Hyper Burst, which Skechers introduced in 2018, is created using a supercritical foaming process.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
• Pressurizing supercritical CO2 is much harder than liquid water and takes far more energy.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2017
• But only one project has actually found supercritical fluids.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 13 Feb. 2020
• Their full-spectrum oil is extracted from organic hemp plants using supercritical CO2 extraction methods.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2023
• New Chapter's Turmeric delivers the power of three different turmeric extracts: whole-spectrum turmeric extract, supercritical CO₂ extract, and water extract.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• Other solvent methods involve drawing out the caffeine using only water (the Swiss water technique), or highly pressurized carbon dioxide (the supercritical carbon dioxide technique).
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 29 Aug. 2019
• During the supercritical startup stage of a company’s development, business leaders must manage through a time of high growth and tremendous potential, but often are lacking in resources and established norms that provide stability and consistency.
  — Susan Alban, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2020
• In terms of processing, advanced extraction methods, such as supercritical CO2 extraction, provide precise and efficient extraction of cannabinoids and terpenes, leading to the production of higher-quality, safer and more reliable cannabis products.
  — Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2023
• And a more technologically advanced (read: expensive) version of the decaffeination process relies on supercritical carbon dioxide.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2021
• The brand also uses the supercritical CO2 extraction process that preserves hemp’s natural phytocannabinoids, terpenes, and other beneficial compounds.
  — Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2022
• Other techniques, like supercritical water oxidation, appear promising as well, Dichtel says.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2023
• Fry, also an associate professor in chemical engineering at BYU, is working in an adjacent building on a next-generation system that uses supercritical carbon-dioxide instead of a conventional steam boiler.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2022
• This makes a supercritical CO2 generator 30 percent more efficient at converting energy into electricity, Irwin writes in his paper.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 26 May 2017
• The questions covered a wide swath of material, from the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution (physics), supercritical water (chemistry), dendritic drainage patterns (geomorphology) to prime factors (mathematics).
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Sep 2024