sublimation

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"However, the sublimation process continues, and so the sand keeps on being blasted in all directions."

From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2025

In many ways, the film was a sublimation of the career-long anxieties of its director/co-writer, Billy Wilder, and co-star Swanson.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

Readers will understandably recoil at the musician’s callousness, especially given Mintz’s sublimation of himself in the service of Lennon and Ono.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024

But different comets are made of different mixes of ice, and sublimation can be a quirky process.

From Scientific American • Jun. 26, 2023

I lost 300 liters to sublimation when the Hab blew up.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir