vaporize

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Too high, and the heat will vaporize the entire droplet.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2024

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

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

When the x-rays hit and vaporize a diamond capsule, the material blasts outward and—thanks to Isaac Newton’s dictum that every action has an equal and opposite reaction—drives the fuel toward the capsule’s center.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 1, 2023

He talked to their pictures in Helen’s magazines, explaining the nature of life difficulties — how matters that one day seemed material, and hard with importance, could the next day simply vaporize.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen