vapor
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The emergency started Thursday, when the fire department responded to a vapor leak from a 34,000-gallon tank at a Garden Grove, Calif., plant belonging to GKN Aerospace, a British maker of jet parts.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
"If it does explode and there is a vapor, you are all safe as long as you are out of the zone that was determined to be an evacuation zone," she said.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
“It got to a point where it does what we call a BLEVE, which is a ‘boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion,’” Covey said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
He pushed a small tool known as a soil vapor probe, with a long, straw-like attachment, about three to five feet into the earth.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
Through endless blobs of ghostly black smoke he sped, the hanging smut wafting against the smooth plexiglass nose of the ship like an evil, damp, sooty vapor against his cheeks.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing vapor
The Water Cycle - Introductory
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Earth Science - Middle School
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The Water Cycle - Middle School and High School
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