vaporize
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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
Vocabulary lists containing vaporize
Cosmos
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"The Hunger Games," Chapter 2 Vocabulary
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Locomotion
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