vapor
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More vapor then condensed onto those droplets, reducing the estimated supersaturation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
The clouds, which have been observed during wildfires in Canada and Australia, are created by intense heat that lifts hot smoky air and causes the water vapor to condense into ash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The first approach uses hydrodynamic cavitation, which creates and collapses tiny vapor bubbles in contaminated water.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
An October 1992 Texaco refinery explosion in Wilmington blew out windows, shook houses like an earthquake and puffed out potentially toxic vapor that went downwind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The sun crossed the cold blue sky and then moved down to the southwest, gilding the clouds and tinting the vapor around the mountain every shade of cream and scarlet, of apricot and orange.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Did he inhale too deeply the vapors of power?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
They were a toxic organization coasting on a grand arena and the vapors of memories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Healthcare Agency said it did not dispute statements that vapors were released from the pressurized tank on May 21.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Authorities said if people are exposed to vapors they need to find fresh air or receive oxygen if they have trouble breathing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
His voice enweaved itself through the somber vapors left by the dirge.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
The Tribune must have more "kick," so it vapored about "a few daring New Yorkers" venturing into the "far West," discovering Chicago and telling their friends about it.
From Time Magazine Archive
So Sube vapored on hoping wildly that something would occur to him.
From Sube Cane by Partridge, Edward Bellamy
For a time he stormed about the Moorish halls, and vapored about the bastions, and looked down fire and sword upon the palace of the captain-general.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Ben and his brother eked out the profits of the dairy by occasional labor, and Ben had sometimes vapored in tap-rooms where he had better have held his tongue.
From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John
You may imagine what a passion I was in when I vapored and blustered in that way.
From The Queen of Hearts by Collins, Wilkie
The press was busy vaporing upon the significance of a de Valera free to roam the Free State.
From Time Magazine Archive
Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
The morning was hurrying by and this vaporing was a hindrance to be shuffled off.
From Rose MacLeod by Brown, Alice
Yet Paul did not waste all his hours in this idle vaporing, nor in the pleasures of the table.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling
We call it by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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