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evaporation

[ih-vap-uh-ray-shuhn] / ɪˌvæp əˈreɪ ʃən /


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Its stomata, the tiny pores that normally take in CO2 and release oxygen during the day, remain closed while the sun is up, reducing water loss through evaporation.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

As ocean evaporation shifts east, it generates warm air that rises into the atmosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

At sites in extreme climates, or during a heat wave, chill airflow or water evaporation is still necessary.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

The low rainfall and high temperatures, which increase evaporation rates, have hit rivers hardest.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

The canal was a flop: some parts ran uphill, apparently because of incompetent engineering, and the rest lost nine-tenths of its water to evaporation and seepage.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

When it does, it will lead to one of the greatest evaporations of wealth in human history.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022

In orbital flights, the astronauts burn liquid oxygen as fuel and breathe its evaporations.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there are undoubtedly other complications besides the evaporations from the soil and the relative humidity of the air to be considered in making an enquiry into the causes of good and bad scent.

From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs

Wide expanses of water, together with their proportional evaporations, would also, in all probability, bring about a more regular rain-fall.

From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon

Were they watery particles of the air frozen as they floated; or were they evaporations from the snow frozen as they mounted ?

From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White




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