vapor

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A familiar physical example appears at the critical point of water, defined by a precise temperature and pressure at which liquid water and water vapor become indistinguishable.

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A thin layer of rock vapor over the molten surface could exist, yet by itself this would not provide enough cooling to match the observations.

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Sunlight heats these surfaces, converting water to vapor that rises into the atmosphere and eventually returns as rain.

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The tower is bristling with high-tech instruments - sensors that track almost everything happening between the forest and the atmosphere: water vapor, carbon dioxide, sunlight, and essential nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.

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What Enceladus does is akin to a volcano hurling lava into space -- except the ejecta are plumes of water vapor and ice.

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