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

"However, the sublimation process continues, and so the sand keeps on being blasted in all directions."

From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2025

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 lost 300 liters to sublimation when the Hab blew up.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir