vaporization
Example Sentences
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His apocalypse prediction was delivered sans despair or even humor but, rather, in a casual “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em” tone of someone who’s way past the freaking out stage of accepting imminent vaporization.
From Salon
Many of these skeletons were contracted in a rigid “boxer position,” which is characteristic of rapid death by vaporization or dehydration.
From Science Magazine
Around 20 other belt-bound objects seen shedding mass — possibly because of comet-like periodic ice vaporization, wild spinning or recent impacts by asteroids — are considered candidates to be comets.
From New York Times
The massive vaporization of thousands of tons of geological material caused the surface layers to collapse, creating hundreds of deep subsidence craters.
From Washington Post
That vaporization and the sooty deposits the fat subsequently leaves on the burger’s surface are essential to the flavor of char-grilled foods, but less trapped fat also means drier burgers.
From New York Times
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