Supersaturate vs Sate - What's the difference?
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To cause a solution to have more solute dissolved in it than it can stably contain at current conditions.
To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
* Macaulay
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(dated) (sit)
Supersaturate is a related term of sate.
As verbs the difference between supersaturate and sate
is that supersaturate is to cause a solution to have more solute dissolved in it than it can stably contain at current conditions while sate is .supersaturate
English
Verb
(supersaturation) (supersaturat)- 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.
sate
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From earlier sate, . More at (l).Verb
(sat)- At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated .
- crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities
- And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
Usage notes
Used interchangeably with, though less common than, satiate.“Monthly Gleanings: November 2011]: Sate'' versus ''satiated''.”, ''[http://blog.oup.com/ OUPblog