vaporize

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Hot showers or baths can vaporize those chemicals too, and if there’s bacteria in the water, it could splash in your eyes, nose or mouth.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

The solvent might vaporize and clog the emitter, so engineers typically design emitters to limit evaporation.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

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

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

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