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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

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

When small pieces of space debris collide, they blow up into tiny fragments, some of which vaporize into a charged gas due to the heat generated by the impact.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 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

Maybe you and Dad can try again— Suddenly the door of the utility closet flew open, and the weight on Roy’s chest seemed to vaporize.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

The copper wire instantly vaporizes, producing plasma with temperatures of several million degrees.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026

When a single research report vaporizes hundreds of billions in market cap, institutional investors have already modeled their own displacement.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

The chase scenes are shot with cool colors and shadows, but the tension vaporizes soon as you realize that the killer can pop up anywhere, untethered by logic or physics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

Patagonia is collecting end-of-life wet suits for a partner that vaporizes them to reclaim what’s known as carbon black, a key ingredient in neoprene and in the natural rubber Patagonia uses.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024

It's a sullen, vindictive cold outside, colder than it's been in months, and my breath vaporizes as we hurry along the canal.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Astronomers have identified powerful winds of vaporized metals inside a vast cloud that blocked the light of a distant star for almost nine months.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026

After Sinner won Wimbledon, it wasn’t hard to find murmuring that the 24-year-old Italian might be making a separation, that his sudden mastery of the grass vaporized Alcaraz’s last edge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2025

Other human remains found elsewhere in Herculaneum had iron oxide deposits in the skull, suggesting that the fluids in the skull were vaporized by the heat, leaving only traces of degraded heme proteins.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

If a water system loses water pressure, that allows contaminants such as bacteria and vaporized VOCs and other toxic chemicals to get inside, Solomon said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025

The nymph smiled one last time and vaporized.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Airbus and Boeing, the two biggest aircraft manufacturers, have acknowledged that malfunctions can lead to oil and hydraulic fluid leaking into the engines or power units and vaporizing at extreme heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2025

The massive machine uses deep-learning AI models to scan fields and identify weeds in real time before vaporizing them with more than 30 high-powered lasers, all while protecting the crop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024

However, the tails of comets are usually formed by vaporizing ice and carbon dioxide, which cannot explain this tail.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

“With all these launches, the amount of material vaporizing during reentry could become roughly comparable to the amount of meteoritic material coming in. And it’s different stuff, a different mix of metals,” Murphy says.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023

She zipped it to my phone with a patch that I opened first to prevent the worm from vaporizing my hard drive.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin