sublimation

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Ajami pointed out that extreme heat is not only causing snow to melt faster but is also causing sublimation, in which snow is transformed directly to water vapor.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

Once the sample has been fully solidified, the solid solvent is removed by sublimation during lyophilization.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

But when one approaches the inner solar system, sunlight turns some of a comet’s ice into gas in a process called sublimation, forming a fuzzy, glowing cloud called a coma.

From Scientific American • Jun. 26, 2023

The other four works on view are luxuriously tall dye sublimation prints on aluminum, three or four panels each, depicting … what?

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

“I’ve gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food. Now we must run. I must leave this house. It has terrible associations.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole