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evaporation

[ih-vap-uh-ray-shuhn] / ɪˌvæp əˈreɪ ʃən /


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An abnormally dry winter resulted in a much-diminished snowpack in the Rocky Mountains, while the scorching temperatures of the hottest July ever recorded in the US have increased evaporation from the lake, he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Soil is like a type of reservoir - those stores are depleted by thirsty trees and plants, and evaporation during hot temperatures.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The plan dates from before the river was diminished by declining snowfall and increasing evaporation due to higher temperatures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

But when the air is already humid, evaporation becomes less efficient.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

And even then the shimmer is generally attributed to evaporation.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

When it does, it will lead to one of the greatest evaporations of wealth in human history.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022

In orbital flights, the astronauts burn liquid oxygen as fuel and breathe its evaporations.

From Time Magazine Archive

The evaporations of that stuff do that as a rule.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan

When Funk first studied this substance he conducted all his evaporations in vacuo from fear that higher temperatures would prove destructive.

From The Vitamine Manual by Walter H. Eddy

Oftentimes also, even in the sea are seen evaporations of fire, and such eruptions and breaking forth of springs, that the mouths of rivers are opened.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr




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