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At the Omega Laser Facility, researchers used intense laser energy to vaporize the outer layer of a tiny sample.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Inside, a high-powered laser fires bursts of light to flatten and vaporize tiny drops of molten tin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

Hot showers or baths can vaporize those chemicals too, and if there’s bacteria in the water, it could splash in your eyes, nose or mouth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025

This robotic mission is designed to search for volatiles, which are molecules that easily vaporize, like water and carbon dioxide, at lunar temperatures.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2023

He talked to their pictures in Helen’s magazines, explaining the nature of life difficulties — how matters that one day seemed material, and hard with importance, could the next day simply vaporize.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Its outer layer vaporizes and becomes an electrically charged gas, causing the object to glow brightly.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

When a single research report vaporizes hundreds of billions in market cap, institutional investors have already modeled their own displacement.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

The organic matter in a person’s body, I was told, vaporizes when burned hot enough, leaving behind the pulverized, inorganic substance we call ashes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

Patagonia is collecting end-of-life wet suits for a partner that vaporizes them to reclaim what’s known as carbon black, a key ingredient in neoprene and in the natural rubber Patagonia uses.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024

It's a sullen, vindictive cold outside, colder than it's been in months, and my breath vaporizes as we hurry along the canal.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The impact likely vaporized huge quantities of rock and hurled material into space.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The suit, filed last week in Arlington, Va. where Boeing is based, is the latest to allege that exposure to vaporized engine oils during a flight has led to long-term illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Other human remains found elsewhere in Herculaneum had iron oxide deposits in the skull, suggesting that the fluids in the skull were vaporized by the heat, leaving only traces of degraded heme proteins.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

If a water system loses water pressure, that allows contaminants such as bacteria and vaporized VOCs and other toxic chemicals to get inside, Solomon said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025

Lots of carbon comes up with kimberlite ejecta, but most is vaporized or turns to graphite.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Airbus and Boeing, the two biggest aircraft manufacturers, have acknowledged that malfunctions can lead to oil and hydraulic fluid leaking into the engines or power units and vaporizing at extreme heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2025

The massive machine uses deep-learning AI models to scan fields and identify weeds in real time before vaporizing them with more than 30 high-powered lasers, all while protecting the crop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024

However, the tails of comets are usually formed by vaporizing ice and carbon dioxide, which cannot explain this tail.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

“With all these launches, the amount of material vaporizing during reentry could become roughly comparable to the amount of meteoritic material coming in. And it’s different stuff, a different mix of metals,” Murphy says.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023

Glowing droplets of eau de toilette streamed out behind me, instantly vaporizing into a silver mist that caught the eddies and spread, seeding the cloud.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda