Word Finder - vapor

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Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.

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The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.

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Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.

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Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.

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(in the plural) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.

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Wind; flatulence.

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To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.

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To turn into vapor.

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to vapor away a heated fluid

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To emit vapor or fumes.

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To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.

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To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.

Whenever the weather changes a vapor is exhaled, which I consider very detrimental to health.

The air around us is composed of superheated vapor.

More water vapor means more clouds means less loss of heat out into space means a warmer planet.

The vapor trail is technically known as an aircraft wake vortices.

Also, water vapor permeability is important for certain products.

Water vapor, the most powerful and prevalent greenhouse gas, is increasing due to global warming.

As water vapor increases, more heat is trapped in the atmosphere, which in turn causes even more warming.

Wisps of vapor showed that the fuel tanks were being filled.

This water vapor rises, condenses and forms clouds, and then returns to the planet's surface as rain or snow.

Don't purchase insulation with a vapor barrier for this second layer.

When bombarded with protons from the Sun, water vapor molecules break up into forms where they react with ozone.

The amount of water vapor in the stratosphere is thought to be fundamentally dependent on tropical tropopause temperatures through a freeze-drying mechanism.

In the absorber a lithium bromide solution absorbs low-pressure refrigerant water vapor produced in the evaporator.

Once a common choice for ceiling lights, fluorescents use a combination of mercury vapor and electric discharge to produce ultraviolet light.

Air, whether cold or hot, cannot flow through vapor barriers because they are impermeable.

Vapor rub under the nostrils may open the airway for snorers who have the nighttime breathing problem due to sinus congestion.

The membrane's pores are larger than water vapor, and thus allow sweat to escape.

Buy a mercury vapor light unit from Ace Hardware, Builder's.

This includes mercury, and both high and low pressure sodium vapor lights common in most city street lights.

Highly breathable to provide comfort in all activities; does not restrict the movement of moisture vapor.

This can be done by hard facing, thermal spraying or chemical vapor deposition.

Consider the use of local exhaust ventilation in order to prevent your exposure to any solvent vapor or mist.

The MODIS sensor is able to image precipitable water vapor with an unprecedented resolution of 1 kilometer.

The easy care material wicks sweat vapor to the outer layers of clothing and dries quickly.

Eventually a temperature will be reached where the saturation vapor pressure is equal to the actual vapor pressure of the air.

If a solvent molecule in the vapor hits a bit of surface occupied by the solute particles, it may well stick.

However, water vapor also escapes when stomata are open and plants must therefore control stomatal opening to prevent excess water loss.

It 's fine, fine material, taking off for the stratosphere and leaving a vapor trail of melodic cacophony in its wake.

But each molecule of water vapor in the atmosphere, containing two atoms of hydrogen, assures an adequate supply.

You'll also want to determine how to handle the joints of the vapor barrier strips.

Carefully push the insulation into the cavity with the vapor retarder facing the conditioned interior space.

The vapor retarder, or face, is the paper backing on the insulation.

Each pore is smaller than a droplet of water, but larger than a vapor moisture molecule.

That means rain can't get in, but moisture vapor can escape from the inside.

Although wool absorbs vapor, it naturally repels droplets of moisture.

Insulation and a vapor barrier are also required in a stone or concrete cellar that uses a cooling system.

The steam, or water vapor, then rises into the air.

The smoke will float up past the lens, looking just like mist or vapor.

A liquid boils when its vapor pressure equals the superincumbent pressure; consequently any process which diminishes the external pressure must also lower the boiling-point.

Letting out a long sigh of vapor, he climbed the steps and walked across the open courtyard.

There are two press aides from Vapor's British parent label, Sanctuary, and me.

Even more importantly it also acts as a vapor barrier preventing condensation forming and steel rusting from within the inside.

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In these conditions a rapid build up of vapor condensation will result.

The former is typified by electroplating and the latter by chemical and physical vapor deposition.

Conventional cotton undergarments absorb moisture and the cotton fibers swell which closes up fabric pores forming a barrier against water vapor diffusion.

In order to remove this water vapor as well, specially designed compressed air dryers have to be fitted.

I have found a vapor bath very efficacious in releasing rigid fibers.

Sodium in a sodium lamp a stream of electrons is passed between tungsten electrodes in a tube containing sodium vapor.

If ethanol vapor is passed over heated aluminum oxide powder, the ethanol is essentially cracked to give ethene and water vapor.