Saturation, saturated, unsaturation or unsaturated may refer to:
Chemistry
* Saturation, a property of organic compounds referring to carbon-carbon bonds
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Saturated and unsaturated compounds
In chemistry, a saturated compound is a chemical compound (or ion) that resists the addition reactions, such as hydrogenation, oxidative addition, and binding of a Lewis acids and bases, Lewis base. The term is used in many contexts and for many ...
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Degree of unsaturation
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Saturated fat
A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all single bonds. A fat known as a glyceride is made of two kinds of smaller molecules: a short glycerol backbone and fatty acids that each contain a long linear or branched c ...
or fatty acid
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Unsaturated fat
An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is at least one double bond within the fatty acid chain. A fatty acid chain is monounsaturated if it contains one double bond, and polyunsaturated if it contains more than one double bond.
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or fatty acid
* Non-susceptibility of an organometallic compound to
oxidative addition
* Saturation of protein
binding sites
In biochemistry and molecular biology, a binding site is a region on a macromolecule such as a protein that binds to another molecule with specificity. The binding partner of the macromolecule is often referred to as a ligand. Ligands may inclu ...
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Saturation of enzymes with a substrate
* Saturation of a solute in a solution, as related to the solute's maximum
solubility
In chemistry, solubility is the ability of a substance, the solute, to form a solution with another substance, the solvent. Insolubility is the opposite property, the inability of the solute to form such a solution.
The extent of the solubil ...
at equilibrium
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Supersaturation
In physical chemistry, supersaturation occurs with a solution when the concentration of a solute exceeds the concentration specified by the value of solubility at equilibrium. Most commonly the term is applied to a solution of a solid in a liqu ...
, where the concentration of a solute exceeds its maximum solubility at equilibrium
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Undersaturation
Undersaturation is a state of a solution that contains less of a dissolved material than could be dissolved by that quantity of solvent under normal circumstances. It can also refer to a vapor of a compound that has a lower (partial) pressure than ...
, where the concentration of a solute is less than its maximum solubility at equilibrium
Biology
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Oxygen saturation, a clinical measure of the amount of oxygen in a patient's blood
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Saturation pollination Saturation pollination is a pollination technique for agricultural crops in areas dominated by non-crop plant species that are preferred by pollinators. The technique involves keeping a larger number of bee colonies than normally maintained for hone ...
, a pollination technique
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Saturated mutagenesis
Site saturation mutagenesis (SSM), or simply site saturation, is a random mutagenesis technique used in protein engineering, in which a single codon or set of codons is substituted with all possible amino acids at the position. There are many v ...
, a form of site-directed mutagenesis
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Saturation (genetic) Genetic saturation is the result of multiple substitutions at the same site in a sequence, or identical substitutions in different sequence, such that the apparent sequence divergence rate is lower than the actual divergence that has occurred. In ...
, the observed number of mutations relative to the maximum amount possible
* Ocean saturation, more than 2.3 billion years ago: see "
Great Oxygenation Event
The Great Oxidation Event (GOE), also called the Great Oxygenation Event, the Oxygen Catastrophe, the Oxygen Revolution, the Oxygen Crisis, or the Oxygen Holocaust, was a time interval during the Paleoproterozoic era when the Earth's atmosphere ...
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* Environmental saturation, environmental resistance to population growth: see "
Logistic function
A logistic function or logistic curve is a common S-shaped curve (sigmoid curve) with equation
f(x) = \frac,
where
For values of x in the domain of real numbers from -\infty to +\infty, the S-curve shown on the right is obtained, with the ...
" and "
Carrying capacity
The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available. The carrying capacity is defined as t ...
"
Physics
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Colorfulness ยง Saturation, see also: "
Saturation intent
In digital imaging systems, color management (or colour management) is the controlled conversion between the color representations of various devices, such as image scanners, digital cameras, monitors, TV screens, film printers, computer printer ...
", a rendering intent in color management
* Thermodynamic state at lower temperature bound of
superheated steam
Superheated steam is steam at a temperature higher than its vaporization point at the absolute pressure where the temperature is measured.
Superheated steam can therefore cool (lose internal energy) by some amount, resulting in a lowering of its ...
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Saturation (magnetic)
Seen in some magnetic materials, saturation is the state reached when an increase in applied external magnetic field ''H'' cannot increase the magnetization of the material further, so the total magnetic flux density ''B'' more or less levels off ...
, the state when a magnetic material is fully magnetized
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Saturated fluid or saturated vapor, contains as much thermal energy as it can without boiling or condensing
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Saturated steam
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Dew point
The dew point is the temperature to which air must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor, assuming constant air pressure and water content. When cooled below the dew point, moisture capacity is reduced and airborne water vapor will cond ...
, which is a temperature that occurs when atmospheric
relative humidity
Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air. Water vapor, the gaseous state of water, is generally invisible to the human eye. Humidity indicates the likelihood for precipitation, dew, or fog to be present.
Humidity depe ...
reaches 100% and the air is saturated with moisture
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Saturated absorption, a set-up that enables the precise determination of the transition frequency of an atom between its ground state and an optically excited state
Electronics
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Saturation velocity, the maximum velocity charge carrier in a semiconductor attains in the presence of very high electric fields
* Saturation, a region of operation of a
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Saturation current, limit of flowing current through a device
Hydrology
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Saturated zone, below the groundwater table
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Unsaturated zone
The vadose zone, also termed the unsaturated zone, is the part of Earth between the land surface and the top of the phreatic zone, the position at which the groundwater (the water in the soil's pores) is at atmospheric pressure ("vadose" is fr ...
, above the groundwater table
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Soil saturation
Water content or moisture content is the quantity of water contained in a material, such as soil (called soil moisture), rock, ceramics, crops, or wood. Water content is used in a wide range of scientific and technical areas, and is expressed as ...
, water content in a soil
Mathematics
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Saturation (commutative algebra)
Saturation, saturated, unsaturation or unsaturated may refer to:
Chemistry
* Saturation, a property of organic compounds referring to carbon-carbon bonds
**Saturated and unsaturated compounds
**Degree of unsaturation
**Saturated fat or fatty acid ...
, the inverse image of the localization of an ideal or submodule
*
Saturated model
In mathematical logic, and particularly in its subfield model theory, a saturated model ''M'' is one that realizes as many complete types as may be "reasonably expected" given its size. For example, an ultrapower model of the hyperreals is \al ...
, a concept in mathematical logic
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Saturation arithmetic
Saturation arithmetic is a version of arithmetic in which all operations, such as addition and multiplication, are limited to a fixed range between a minimum and maximum value.
If the result of an operation is greater than the maximum, it is set ...
, in arithmetic, a version of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to fixed range
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Saturation (graph theory)
Saturation, saturated, unsaturation or unsaturated may refer to:
Chemistry
* Saturation, a property of organic compounds referring to carbon-carbon bonds
** Saturated and unsaturated compounds
**Degree of unsaturation
** Saturated fat or fatty ac ...
, a categorization of vertices in graph theory
*
Saturated measure, if every locally measurable set is also measurable
* Saturated
multiplicatively closed set In abstract algebra, a multiplicatively closed set (or multiplicative set) is a subset ''S'' of a ring ''R'' such that the following two conditions hold:
* 1 \in S,
* xy \in S for all x, y \in S.
In other words, ''S'' is closed under taking finite ...
s, a concept in ring theory
Music
* "
Saturation (song)
"Saturation" is an alternative rock song performed by Australian band The Superjesus. The song was released in November 1997 as the second single from the band's debut studio album, ''Sumo'' (1998). The song peaked at number 42 on the Australian ...
", a 1997 single by Australian group
The Superjesus
The Superjesus are an Australian rock band formed in Adelaide in late 1994. Their debut album, ''Sumo'' (February 1998), peaked at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart, their second album, ''Jet Age'' (October 2000) reached No. 5 and their ...
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''Saturation'' (Urge Overkill album), 1993
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''Saturation'' (Vas Deferens Organization album), 1996
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''Saturation'' (Brockhampton album), 2017 (Also see ''
Saturation II'' and ''
Saturation III
''Saturation III'' (stylized in all caps) is the third studio album by American boy band
Brockhampton, released on December 15, 2017. Production is predominantly handled by Romil Hemnani, alongside production duo Q3 (composed of Jabari Manwa and K ...
'')
Other uses
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Market saturation, in economics
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Saturation diving
Saturation diving is diving for periods long enough to bring all tissues into equilibrium with the partial pressures of the inert components of the breathing gas used. It is a diving mode that reduces the number of decompressions divers working ...
See also
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Saturate (disambiguation)
Saturate may refer to:
* ''Saturate'' (Breaking Benjamin album), 2002
* ''Saturate'' (Gojira album), 1999
* ''Saturate'' (Jeff Deyo album), 2002
* " Electronic Battle Weapon 8", a song by The Chemical Brothers, a shorter version of which was re ...
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Saturation point (disambiguation) Saturation point may refer to:
* Dew point, in meteorology
* Hydrocarbon dew point
The hydrocarbon dew point is the temperature (at a given pressure) at which the hydrocarbon components of any hydrocarbon-rich gas mixture, such as natural gas, w ...
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