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vaporize

[vey-puh-rahyz] / ˈveɪ pəˌraɪz /
VERB
evaporate
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Inside, a high-powered laser fires bursts of light to flatten and vaporize tiny drops of molten tin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

This robotic mission is designed to search for volatiles, which are molecules that easily vaporize, like water and carbon dioxide, at lunar temperatures.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2023

Earlier researchers “didn’t think a lot about what happens to things that vaporize during reentry. Of course they can’t disappear. They’ve got to go somewhere,” Murphy says.

From Scientific American • Oct. 26, 2023

Riding full gallop on a beast that could vaporize at any moment made her a bit nervous.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan




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