vaporize

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

Too high, and the heat will vaporize the entire droplet.

From Science Daily ● May 24, 2024

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

The compressed air starts to glow, and when it reaches a temperature of about 2,000 degrees Celsius, the solid material in the meteoroid starts to vaporize.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 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

Its outer layer vaporizes and becomes an electrically charged gas, causing the object to glow brightly.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

When a single research report vaporizes hundreds of billions in market cap, institutional investors have already modeled their own displacement.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

The chase scenes are shot with cool colors and shadows, but the tension vaporizes soon as you realize that the killer can pop up anywhere, untethered by logic or physics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

Patagonia is collecting end-of-life wet suits for a partner that vaporizes them to reclaim what’s known as carbon black, a key ingredient in neoprene and in the natural rubber Patagonia uses.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024

It's a sullen, vindictive cold outside, colder than it's been in months, and my breath vaporizes as we hurry along the canal.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Specific combinations of materials were introduced into a high-temperature plasma, where they were vaporized.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026

The suit, filed last week in Arlington, Va. where Boeing is based, is the latest to allege that exposure to vaporized engine oils during a flight has led to long-term illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Other human remains found elsewhere in Herculaneum had iron oxide deposits in the skull, suggesting that the fluids in the skull were vaporized by the heat, leaving only traces of degraded heme proteins.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

If a water system loses water pressure, that allows contaminants such as bacteria and vaporized VOCs and other toxic chemicals to get inside, Solomon said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025

It should have vaporized its target, but-the dark cloud only staggered backward.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

Airbus and Boeing, the two biggest aircraft manufacturers, have acknowledged that malfunctions can lead to oil and hydraulic fluid leaking into the engines or power units and vaporizing at extreme heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2025

It does sound magical that a human being could turn into glass, but far better if studying the Guardian can prevent vaporizing, volatilization and vitrification — or saponification — of anyone else.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

The polluted water oozing out of Chiquita Canyon contains cancer-causing benzene and other chemicals, which environmental regulators fear is vaporizing and drifting into nearby communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

However, the tails of comets are usually formed by vaporizing ice and carbon dioxide, which cannot explain this tail.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

She zipped it to my phone with a patch that I opened first to prevent the worm from vaporizing my hard drive.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin