: the extra heat imparted to a vapor in superheating it from a dry and saturated condition
also: the corresponding rise of temperature
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Smother it with a 6-inch layer of woody mulch and/or solarize to superheat the soil, which kills the grass, weeds, soil pathogens and weed seeds. Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022 Use the sun’s rays to superheat the soil, using the greenhouse effect. Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022 And/or solarize to superheat the soil and kill both the grass and weed seeds. Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021 Its magma reservoirs sit very close to the surface, feeding heat and gas into a shallow aquifer above it, superheating any water trapped in the rock, and pressurizing the surrounding sediment. Megan Molteni, Wired, 10 Dec. 2019 Normally, that boundary huddles too close to the star for astronomers to see it, but this particular star had a sudden burst of brightness that superheated its disk, obliterating ice further out than usual. Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 13 July 2016 Solar panels generate electrical power, which the vehicle then uses to generate microwaves, which superheat the water up to Sun-surface temperatures. Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2019 Ben Platt didn’t stumble tenderfooted into the title character of Dear Evan Hansen, the musical in which his superheated, sung-through-sobs performance earned him a Tony, an Emmy, and a Grammy before his 25th birthday.Vogue, 20 Aug. 2019 The plastic will trap the sun’s rays to superheat the soil, killing grass, weeds, weed seeds, etc. Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2019
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Today Saudi Arabian engineers plan to build a plant with giant mirrors that concentrate sunlight and superheat water within a steel-and-glass dome more than 50 meters across. Prachi Patel, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2021 Maars appear when magma mixes explosively with groundwater, triggering eruptions of fresh volcanic material, or when hot rock superheats this water, creating bursts of steam that fling rock into the sky. Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2019 Turn the water off, then wait six to eight weeks as the soil superheats to kill the grass and weeds. Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Aug. 2017 See More