vaporize
Example Sentences
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When small pieces of space debris collide, they blow up into tiny fragments, some of which vaporize into a charged gas due to the heat generated by the impact.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 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
When the x-rays hit and vaporize a diamond capsule, the material blasts outward and—thanks to Isaac Newton’s dictum that every action has an equal and opposite reaction—drives the fuel toward the capsule’s center.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 1, 2023
He’d been a middle manager at a utility company, took a buyout after a merger and layoff, and then watched much of his retirement fund vaporize during a market crash.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2023
The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Vocabulary lists containing vaporize
Cosmos
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Locomotion
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