evaporate

evaporation | American Dictionary

evaporation
noun[ U ]
us/ɪˌvæp·əˈreɪ·ʃən/
chemistry, biology
the process of changing from a liquid to a gas, or a change from a liquid to a gas

Examples of evaporation

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Petri dishes were enclosed and sealed in clear plastic bags to reduce water evaporation.
The somewhat unexpected conclusion that thermal evaporation is negligible led us to examine in detail the characteristic timescales for energy transfer within the laserheated layer.
Nevertheless, the effect of evaporation and other natural degradation processes through the years might have contributed to lower hydrocarbon concentrations.
The question is how is thermal evaporation "turned on" by the presence of air when we concluded it is negligible in vacuum?
They are found in evaporite salt lakes and can be trapped in salt crystals during evaporation.
It accounts for solid, liquid, plasma states as well as two-phase regions of melting and evaporation.
Rainfall is considered in [26], however, neither evaporation nor infiltration are investigated.
As farmers began to grow crops in former conservation areas, they increased evaporation and decreased the ability of vegetation to intercept rainfall and inhibit erosion.
From the taza, the brine is taken with buckets to the eras, or evaporation pans made of beach sand with lime.
The origin of these par ticles relates to the target inhomogeneities, laser flux density fluctuations, and other irregularities of the laser evaporation process.
The whole system is alkaline, and carbonate can be easily precipitated during dry spells, when there is excess evaporation.
At sufficient stellar flux this will lead to the rapid evaporation of all surface water.
Water from the original site was added weekly to replace water lost by evaporation.
Afterwards, irrigation was applied at weekly intervals with amounts equivalent to the sum of the pan evaporation less rainfall during that period.
Shaded intervals are interpreted to represent periods of increased evaporation and precipitation, which indicates drought.
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