In the 1890s, the German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald recognized that supersaturated solutions often preferred to transform into a ...

According to this theory, a boiling liquid is a supersaturated solution of its own vapor. This is proved by holding a nucleus in any part of the liquid. It will instantly become covered with steam ...

In the 1890s, the German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald recognized that supersaturated solutions often preferred to transform into metastable intermediate phase rather than thermodynamically stable one ...