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vapor

noun as in fumes, mist

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Carbon dioxide is one of the chief anthropogenic greenhouse gases that contributes to climate change; the others are methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases.

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These particles, in turn, grow over time and then serve as condensation nuclei for water vapor -- they thus play an important role in cloud formation in the tropics.

La Niña seasons typically produce large numbers of atmospheric rivers, or narrow bands of concentrated water vapor in the sky that act like rivers in the sky.

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The researchers examined the thermal performance of a TCM reactor powered by strontium chloride, which gives off heat as it reacts with water vapor in the air.

Firstly, water vapor interferes and overlaps with the absorption spectra of many gases in the standard infrared ranges normally used for detection.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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