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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

The solvent might vaporize and clog the emitter, so engineers typically design emitters to limit evaporation.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

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

As the kettle heats further, chemicals with higher boiling points vaporize and then are condensed and collected.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023

In the upper reaches of the atmosphere you’d come apart, you’d vaporize, there would be no pressure holding you together.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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