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vaporize

[vey-puh-rahyz] / ˈveɪ pəˌraɪz /
VERB
evaporate
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Inside, a high-powered laser fires bursts of light to flatten and vaporize tiny drops of molten tin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

During a massive impact, temperatures soar, allowing potassium to vaporize and its isotopes to separate.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

As the kettle heats further, chemicals with higher boiling points vaporize and then are condensed and collected.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023

The compressed air starts to glow, and when it reaches a temperature of about 2,000 degrees Celsius, the solid material in the meteoroid starts to vaporize.

From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023

A hotter surface would vaporize still more carbonates into CO,, and there would be the possibility of a runaway greenhouse effect to very high temperatures.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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