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Oversupply vs Supersaturate - What's the difference?

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Oversupply is a related term of supersaturate.


As verbs the difference between oversupply and supersaturate

is that oversupply is to supply more than is needed while supersaturate is to cause a solution to have more solute dissolved in it than it can stably contain at current conditions.

As a noun oversupply

is an excessive supply.

oversupply

English

Verb

  • To supply more than is needed

    • Noun

    (oversupplies)
  • An excessive supply.
  • *2012 , (Jurek Martin), ‘A Singular President’, Literary Review , 401:
  • *:He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital.

    • supersaturate

    English

    Verb

    (supersaturation) (supersaturat)
  • To cause a solution to have more solute dissolved in it than it can stably contain at current conditions.
    • In science class the teacher prepared a supersaturated solution by cooling a saturated solution. He then added a small seed crystal and a large precipitate formed in just a second.