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Vaporize   Listen
verb
Vaporize  v. t.  (past & past part. vaporized; pres. part. vaporizing)  To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.
Vaporizing surface. (Steam Boilers) See Evaporating surface, under Evaporate, v. t.






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"Vaporize" Quotes from Famous Books



... We vaporize at 20 a certain quantity of the liquid, and the vapors fill the known capacity of the pump. The pressure of the gases in the interior is ascertained by a pressure gauge, and this pressure should be constant if care is taken to act upon a sufficient ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various

... it appear that heat must have come from some source to vaporize all this vast quantity of water, that one gentleman, Professor Frankland,[4] suggested that the ocean must have been rendered hot by the internal fires of the earth, and thus the water was sent up in clouds to fall in ice and snow; but Sir John Lubbock disposes of this theory by showing that the ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly

... already so happily invoked, between the phenomena met with in solutions and those produced in gases, Professor Nernst supposes that metals tend, as it were, to vaporize when in presence of a liquid. A piece of zinc introduced, for example, into pure water gives birth to a few metallic ions. These ions become positively charged, while the metal naturally takes an equal charge, but of contrary sign. Thus the solution and the metal are both electrified; ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare



Words linked to "Vaporize" :   vapor, sublime, decrease, vaporise, evaporate, kill, gasify, fly, diminish, change integrity, fell, sublimate, vaporizable



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