evaporation
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Eccrine sweat glands perform a critical function: cooling the body via evaporation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
The analysis instead points to large-scale loss of volatile elements during the SPA-forming impact, particularly through potassium evaporation.
From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026
The wave pool holds 7 million gallons of water and, because of evaporation, filtration and maintenance, it is expected to go through roughly 25 million gallons of water a year.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
Some use water evaporation to dissipate the heat, which works well but is thirsty.
From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025
Once or twice, when the normal process of evaporation is deemed too slow, I am assigned to dry a scrubbed floor by putting rags under my feet and skating around on it.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Vocabulary lists containing evaporation
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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