vaporization

Example Sentences

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His apocalypse prediction was delivered sans despair or even humor but, rather, in a casual “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em” tone of someone who’s way past the freaking out stage of accepting imminent vaporization.

From Salon

Around 20 other belt-bound objects seen shedding mass — possibly because of comet-like periodic ice vaporization, wild spinning or recent impacts by asteroids — are considered candidates to be comets.

From New York Times

The massive vaporization of thousands of tons of geological material caused the surface layers to collapse, creating hundreds of deep subsidence craters.

From Washington Post

That vaporization and the sooty deposits the fat subsequently leaves on the burger’s surface are essential to the flavor of char-grilled foods, but less trapped fat also means drier burgers.

From New York Times

When flowing magma hit the lake, vaporization created ‘’a huge additional extra energy and it generated pyroclastic density currents that were very fast-moving and deadly, early on in the eruptive sequence,” she said.

From Seattle Times