vaporize

“You don’t often watch a company vaporize in front of your eyes,” he told me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

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

When small pieces of space debris collide, they blow up into tiny fragments, some of which vaporize into a charged gas due to the heat generated by the impact.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023

Earlier researchers “didn’t think a lot about what happens to things that vaporize during reentry. Of course they can’t disappear. They’ve got to go somewhere,” Murphy says.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023

As they got closer, Frank worried that the store might burst into rainbow light and vaporize them, but the building stayed dark.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

The copper wire instantly vaporizes, producing plasma with temperatures of several million degrees.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 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

While some of the EAC’s functions are useful, the November elections would go on even if the agency were hit by an asteroid and vaporized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

A thin layer of vaporized rock might also exist, though it would not provide enough cooling on its own.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026

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

“There’s another element there that I think is the key element, and that is an agreed upon hierarchy, which I think is absolutely vaporized in today’s moment,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

He threw the cake back at the shop, and it vaporized in the light.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

In January 2002, Global Crossing filed for bankruptcy, vaporizing tens of billions in market value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

It does sound magical that a human being could turn into glass, but far better if studying the Guardian can prevent vaporizing, volatilization and vitrification — or saponification — of anyone else.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 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

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