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Fe(CN)6]3-(aq) + 6 H20(1). substrate The chemical species on which an enzyme acts, superconductor An electronic conductor that conducts electricity with zero resistance. See also high-temperature superconductor. supercooled Refers to a liquid cooled to below its freezing point but not yet frozen, supercritical fluid A fluid phase of a substance above its critical temperature and critical pressure. supercritical Having a mass greater than the critical mass. 

Water is a very structurally versatile molecule. Water exists in all three physical states solid, liquid, and gas. Under extremely high temperature and pressure conditions, water can also become a supercritical fluid. Liquid water can be cooled carefully to below its freezing point without solidifying to ice, resulting in two possible forms of supercooled water. In the solid state, 13 different crystalline phases (polymorphous) and 3 amorphous forms (polyamorphous) of water are currently known. These fascinating faces of water are explored in detail in this section. 

Supercritical fluid Supercritical fluid, e.g. CO2 Liquid film coated on solid support Materials of mol. wt. overlapping with... 

Chromatography with Supercritical Fluids. III. Fluid-Liquid Chromatography, Separation Sci. (1967) 2 (6), 729. 

For any pure chemical species, there exists a critical temperature (Tc) and pressure (Pc) immediately below which an equilibrium exists between the liquid and vapor phases (1). Above these critical points a two-phase system coalesces into a single phase referred to as a supercritical fluid. Supercritical fluids have received a great deal of attention in a number of important scientific fields. Interest is primarily a result of the ease with which the chemical potential of a supercritical fluid can be varied simply by adjustment of the system pressure. That is, one can cover an enormous range of, for example, diffusivities, viscosities, and dielectric constants while maintaining simultaneously the inherent chemical structure of the solvent (1-6). As a consequence of their unique solvating character, supercritical fluids have been used extensively for extractions, chromatographic separations, chemical reaction processes, and enhanced oil recovery (2-6). 

In some substances, compression of this sort would lead to condensation, forcing the molecules to interact with each other much like the molecules in a liquid. This pressure-process of condensation can also produce something called supercritical fluids, liquids that don t behave like normal liquids and instead have properties of both liquids and gases. 

Supercritical fluids Liquids that don t behave like normal liquids and instead have properties of both liquids and gases. 

The liquid-gas equilibrium line terminates at a point known as the critical point. The temperature and pressure that define the critical point are known as the critical temperature and the critical pressure. For example, nitrous oxide has a critical temperature of 36°C and a critical pressure of 72.45 bar (1051 psi). When the temperature and pressure exceed these critical values, the system becomes a supercritical fluid. Supercritical fluids have the flow properties of gases but densities similar to liquids, and supercritical fluids have no surface tension. Therefore, supercritical fluids are terrific solvents. For example, supercritical carbon dioxide is an excellent solvent for extracting caffeine from coffee without resorting to more toxic organic solvents like dichloromethane. 

A COMPAHISON OF SoME PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SUPERCRITICAL Fluids, Liquids, and Gases... 

In addition to the aforementioned conventional liquid organic solvents, two other types of molecular liquids have attracted much interest as supplementary or alternative media for synthesis and processing, namely supercritical fluids (sc-fluids) [209] and metastable liquids [210]. 

In addition to fluorous solvents and ionie liquids, supercritical fluids sc-fluids, scf s), sueh as supercritical carbon dioxide (se-C02), constitute a third class of neoteric solvents that can be used as reaction media. Although sc-fluids have been known for a long time and have been advantageously used as eluants in extraction and chromatography processes (see Sections A.6 and A.7 in the Appendix), their application as reaction media for chemical processes has become more popular only during the last decade. Some of their physical properties and the supercritical conditions necessary for their existence have already been described in Section 3.2 (see Figure 3-2 and Table 3-4) see also references [209, 211-220, 224-230] to Chapter 3 for reviews on sc-fluids and their applications (particularly for SC-CO2 and SC-H2O). 

Huopalahti, R. Henion, J.D. Application of supercritical fluid liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for the determination of some anabolic agents directly from bovine tissue samples. J. Liq. Chromatogr. Relat. Technol. 1996, 19, 69-87. 

Look at point E on the line AD, where gas and liquid are in equilibrium at 101.3 kPa. If you increase the temperature slightly, liquid will evaporate and only vapor will remain. If you decrease the temperature slightly, vapor condenses and only water remains. Liquid exists to the left of line AD, and vapor exists to the right of AD. Along line AD, the vapor pressure is increasing, so the density of the vapor increases. The liquid decreases in density. At a temperature and pressure called the critical point, the liquid and vapor phases of a substance are identical. Above this point, the substance is called supercritical fluid. A fluid is the state that a... 

Experimental Measurement of Supercritical Fluid—Liquid Phase Equilibrium... 

We wish to emphasize that the design of experimental apparatus for pVTxy measurements of supercritical fluid-liquid equilibrium in fatty ester systems has to be undertaken with special care to avoid adsorption of the fatty acid on the sampling apparatus. Since the equilibrium fluid mixture passes through the sampling valve in our design, it is neither necessary nor advisable to use very small diameter lines. 

The objective of the present paper is to describe the behavior of supercritical fluid-liquid mixtures by using simple equations of state (EOS) with different mixing rules. 

Fundamental aspects of vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) semiconductor nanowire growth are presented here. The synthesis of VLS semiconductor has been extended to different reaction media and pathways from the early chemical vapor deposition (CVD) approach, including solution-liquid-solid (SLS) and supercritical fluid-liquid-solid (SFLS), laser-catalyzed growth, and vapor-liquid-solid-epitaxy. The properties of nanowires grown by these VLS embodiments are compared. In this entry, VLS growth of nanowire heterostructures and oriented and hyperbranched arrays is examined. In addition, surface passivation and functionalization are assessed, and the importance of these techniques in the progress toward VLS produced nanowire devices is detailed. 

Davidson F.M., III Schricker, A.D. Wiacek, R.J. Korgel, B.A. Supercritical fluid-liquid-solid synthesis of gallium arsenide nanowires seeded by alkanethiol-stabilized gold nanocrystals. Adv. Mater. 2004, 16 (7), 646-649. 

For safe and long-term storage, carbon dioxide must be injected more than 800 m below the Earth s surface. At that depth, the gas becomes a supercritical fluid. Such fluids have the gas-like characteristic of low viscosity and the liquidlike characteristic of high density. Supercritical behaviour exists only when temperature and pressure both reach, or exceed, their respective values at the so-called critical point . Every substance has its own critical temperature, above which the gas cannot be liquefied no matter how high the pressure. For carbon dioxide, the critical point lies at 31 °C and 7.4 MPa. Supercritical fluids have properties similar to those of liquid solvents and are employed commercially to extract soluble substances. For example, supercritical carbon dioxide is used to remove caffeine from coffee. 

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A substance which is at a temperature higher than the critical temperature and a pressure higher than its critical pressure is called a supercritical fluid. Supercritical fluids have some properties in common with gasses and some in common with liquid, as may be expected since it they are not observed to be liquid but would be expected to be liquefied at extreme pressures. 

At intermediate expansion levels, expanded droplets (balloons) have been observed by Reverchon et al. [18]. Spherical balloons were also observed by Dixon et al. [25] during the processing of polystyrene. Different nucleation structures can appear and different kinds of balloons have been observed. For example, during the precipitation of samarium acetate, empty shells of solute with a continuous surface were observed [18]. This is explained by the solute precipitation, which starts at the supercritical fluid-liquid interface and then propagates inside the liquid attracting the solute toward the separation surface. This mechanism results in the formation of hollow spherical structures [17]. 

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