vaporization

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They are salts - magnesium perchlorate, chlorate and chloride - that can drop the freezing point of water by 80 degrees and its vaporisation rate by a factor of 10.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2015

If water is present at the interface between layers, its vaporisation also produces fractures.

From Scientific American • Jun. 28, 2014

By vaporisation, water, ether, sulphuric acid, ammonia, etc., in assuming the vaporous form change sensible heat to latent heat and produce a degree of cold which freezes an adjacent body of water.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

The saline properties are caused by the drainage from the basalt rocks, "the water being kept down by vaporisation, while the quantity of salt continually increases."

From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard

The sun, by the act of vaporisation, lifts mechanically all the moisture of our air, which when it condenses falls in the form of rain, and when it freezes falls as snow.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John