Experiments were performed to determine the effect of various parameters on the solidification characteristics of supercooled high-temperature melt. Potassium thiocyanate was adopted as a sample material. The sample was dried and kept over the melting point for more than 1 hour, then both the observation of the solidification characteristics and the measurement of temperature distribution were carried out under constant cooling velocity. The experimental results show that both the initial temperature of melt and the cooling velocity exert the considerable effects on both the supercooling characteristics and the properties of solidified layer of the sample material.
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