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vaporize

[vey-puh-rahyz] / ˈveɪ pəˌraɪz /
VERB
evaporate
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During a massive impact, temperatures soar, allowing potassium to vaporize and its isotopes to separate.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

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

In the upper reaches of the atmosphere you’d come apart, you’d vaporize, there would be no pressure holding you together.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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