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Vaporize   /vˈeɪpərˌaɪz/   Listen
Vaporize

verb
(past & past part. vaporized; pres. part. vaporizing)
1.
Kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting.  Synonym: zap.
2.
Turn into gas.  Synonyms: aerify, gasify, vaporise.
3.
Lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue.  Synonyms: evaporate, vaporise.
4.
Decrease rapidly and disappear.  Synonyms: fly, vanish.  "All my stock assets have vaporized"






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"Vaporize" Quotes from Famous Books



... We vaporize at 20 a certain quantity of the liquid, and the vapors fill the known capacity of the pump. The pressure of the gases in the interior is ascertained by a pressure gauge, and this pressure should be constant if care is taken to act upon a sufficient mass of liquid and with moderate speed. ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various

... to right or left on steering rockets, but the war rocket could swerve also. It was controlled from the ground. It did not need to crash the small ship from space. Within a limited number of miles the blast of its atomic warhead would vaporize any substance that could exist. And of course the ship could not turn back. Even the expenditure of all its landing-rockets could not bring twenty tons of ship to a halt. They could speed it up, so it would pass the calculated meeting place ahead of the ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster

... never hope to get out his hidden weapon, find Michaels with it, and vaporize him. Not until the other had plenty of time to release a beam of his own. He shuddered, remembering the destruction that weapon had caused ...
— The Best Made Plans • Everett B. Cole

... decomposed by the pile, sulphur is evolved at the negative pole; but when sulphuret of silver is decomposed in a similar way (436.), then the sulphur appears at the positive pole; and if a hot platina pole be used so as to vaporize the sulphur evolved in the latter case, then the relation of that pole to the sulphur is exactly the same as the relation of the same pole to oxygen upon its immersion in water. In both cases the ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday

... an oil burner is to atomize or vaporize the fuel so that it may be burned like a gas. All burners may be classified under three general types: 1st, spray burners, in which the oil is atomized by steam or compressed air; 2nd, vapor burners, ...
— Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co.

... temperature of 212 degrees F., the water passes from the fluid to the gaseous state, and in doing so expands to 1,696 times its bulk. Now if the steam so developed be confined under a pressure of 105 pounds to the square inch, the water will not vaporize until a molecular velocity is attained indicated by a temperature of 312 deg. F. (Spons' "Engineering," D2, page 418), and then the expansion is only 253 times its bulk. By using this steam, in a steam engine, the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 • Various



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