evaporation
noun
evap·o·ra·tion
i-ˌva-pə-ˈrā-shən 
: the act or process of evaporating:
a
: change from a liquid to a vapor
evaporation of water
But warming increases the evaporation of ocean water, which could increase the snowfall on the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, remove water from the ocean, and lower sea level.—
Jack M. Hollander
Jack M. Hollander
b
: the vanishing or disappearance of something
The pope's attempt to arrest the evaporation of the Christian tradition in Europe was also unsuccessful.—Conrad Black
Conrad BlackNo longer a machine that accelerates the evaporation of resources, in the Roman context the banquet becomes a theatre of wealth and property, of social distinction, or social-climbing.—James N. Davidson
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This allowed the team to assess the relative contributions of streamflow and precipitation into the lake and evaporation off it to the record low of 2022.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Aerial view of evaporation pools for lithium extraction at the Salar de Olaroz salt flat, near Olaroz Chico town, Jujuy province, Argentina, on July 1, 2024.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
Drylands were defined as places in which annual potential evaporation and transpiration are 45% greater than average precipitation.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
Pontefract also explains that impact craters, closed-basin environments, can contain high concentrations of chemistry due to evaporation, and origin of life scholars have shown that dehydration is an important process for forming nucleic acids from basic building blocks.
—Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Aerial view of evaporation pools for lithium extraction at the Salar de Olaroz salt flat, near Olaroz Chico town, Jujuy province, Argentina, on July 1, 2024.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
Drylands were defined as places in which annual potential evaporation and transpiration are 45% greater than average precipitation.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
Pontefract also explains that impact craters, closed-basin environments, can contain high concentrations of chemistry due to evaporation, and origin of life scholars have shown that dehydration is an important process for forming nucleic acids from basic building blocks.
—Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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evaporation
noun
evap·o·ra·tion
i-ˌvap-ə-ˈrā-shən
: the change by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into and carried off in vapor
specifically
: the conversion of a liquid into vapor in order to remove it wholly or partly from a liquid of higher boiling point or from solids dissolved in or mixed with it
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