Definitions
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- adjective Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.
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- adjective Insufficiently
saturated - adjective geology (of igneous rock) Having
minerals without freesilica
Etymologies
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Examples
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Color images were a bit undersaturated and a good bit less vibrant than an LCD display, but certainly acceptable.
Is There a Mirasol in the eReader Future? « Steve Wildstrom on Tech 2010
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Color images were a bit undersaturated and a good bit less vibrant than an LCD display, but certainly acceptable.
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Data to the left of the dotted line are undersaturated and to the right are over-saturated.
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At high latitudes, surface waters are often undersaturated because heat is lost to the atmosphere more quickly than CO2 can dissolve.
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Changes will be much more pronounced in areas such as the Southern Ocean, which will become undersaturated with respect to aragonite in 2050.
Ocean acidification 2009
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In contrast, the f CO2 profile of Atlantic-origin waters shows that waters below 50 m in the Eurasian Basin are undersaturated and will take up atmospheric CO2 if moved onto the shelf by upwelling [15].
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The tropical and warmest subtropical waters are unlikely to become undersaturated.
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Some companies, like entertainment juggernaut The Walt Disney Co., are staying ahead of the game by opening new parks in the undersaturated regions.
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The data plots in Feely et al. 2004 show demonstrate the shoaling of the aragonite saturation horizons in the North Pacific and Indian Oceans, and also a reduction in the size of an undersaturated midwater zone in the southern Atlantic.
HAnsen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past – Continued « Climate Audit 2006
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In Orr et al. 2005, the damaging effects of keeping a live pteropod in undersaturated water are shown in microphotographs.
HAnsen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past – Continued « Climate Audit 2006
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