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What does undersaturated mean?

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Adjective
  1. Insufficiently saturated
  2. (geology) (of igneous rock) Having minerals without free silica
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In undersaturated conditions, the ice content is too low to distinguish between permafrost and permafrost-free areas using geophysical methods, and in particular, with geoelectric radar methods.
If the air is undersaturated, with a relative humidity of less than 100 percent, it gains water vapour because the rate of evaporation exceeds the rate of condensation.
Furthermore, in slopes, the permafrost is often dry or undersaturated with ice.
They further show that the undersaturated regions were also those experiencing a freshening of surface waters due to melting sea ice.
Silica saturation is a classification of minerals and rocks as oversaturated, saturated, or undersaturated with respect to silica.
At 550 ppm CO2, half of the ocean south of 60°S becomes undersaturated.

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