vaporize

“You don’t often watch a company vaporize in front of your eyes,” he told me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

During a massive impact, temperatures soar, allowing potassium to vaporize and its isotopes to separate.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026

Hot showers or baths can vaporize those chemicals too, and if there’s bacteria in the water, it could splash in your eyes, nose or mouth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025

As the kettle heats further, chemicals with higher boiling points vaporize and then are condensed and collected.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023

I felt like I could vaporize on the spot.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

The process also vaporizes most of the oil before it can remain behind as a toxic tar-like residue on the water.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 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 organic matter in a person’s body, I was told, vaporizes when burned hot enough, leaving behind the pulverized, inorganic substance we call ashes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 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

A thin layer of vaporized rock might also exist, though it would not provide enough cooling on its own.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026

The suit, filed last week in Arlington, Va. where Boeing is based, is the latest to allege that exposure to vaporized engine oils during a flight has led to long-term illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 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

Unaware that the meteor and everything in it would have been vaporized on impact, he wasted a fortune, and the next twenty-six years, cutting tunnels that yielded nothing.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

In January 2002, Global Crossing filed for bankruptcy, vaporizing tens of billions in market value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

The polluted water oozing out of Chiquita Canyon contains cancer-causing benzene and other chemicals, which environmental regulators fear is vaporizing and drifting into nearby communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 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