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Abstract The phenomenon of spontaneous bubble nucleation in extremely superheated binary solutions has been studied experimentally. The experiments were carried out by the pulse heating of a wire probe. Spontaneous boiling-up temperatures T* for solutions composed of components of different chemical nature have been measured in a wide range of variables, such as pressure p (up to the critical one pc) and composition (x ∼ 0 ÷ 1). For the most common types of the critical curve {Tc(x), pc(x)}, we have revealed the relationship between a change in the coordinates of the critical point and that of the attainable superheat line T*(p; x = const). This result leads to the natural choice of the program of further research including elucidation of the impact of the double metastability factor on the spontaneous boiling-up of solutions with different degree of compatibility of components.