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noun
The phenomenon whereby a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapour layer which keeps the liquid from boiling rapidly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
After Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost.
