Word Finder - vapors

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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.

This section deals with the adsorption of gases and vapors through solid adsorbents to form adsorbates.

Even kestrels are hovering low, their sharp eyesight blunted by the vapors below them.

The captured vapors are burned to generate enough electrical energy for the Shell grid to compensate for the new loading gantry 's consumption.

The vapors from the amyl nitrite are inhaled through the nose or mouth.

Meantime, so noxious and deadly were the vapors that rose from the ground, that whenever it was opened nausea and sickness followed.

In addition A full face mask respirator capable of dealing with acid and chlorine gasses and vapors may be preferable in some circumstances.

Tagetes will flower in Winter but to keep whitefly away it is the dying flowers that are needed - these give off vapors.

The smoke stuck in the chimney before swilling down to fill the room with thick, blue vapors that made everyone 's eyes smart.

A House of Lords committee enquired into the matter of noxious vapors.

They should be ventilated to prevent the build up of flammable vapors.

This results in a rock-like crystal that, when heated, emits vapors that are smoked.

Fuel vapors are heavier than air; a spark at ground level could cause a fire.

Noxious gases and fumes include all chemical vapors that aren't naturally found in the air like carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and others.

Placing a few drops of peppermint oil onto a handkerchief and breathing in the vapors also helps relieve headache pain.

Certain corrosive vapors trigger the body to flood the lungs with fluids, effectively drowning the person.

These may include tobacco smoke; household cleaners (ammonia and chlorine bleach) and furniture polish; ozone and other air pollutants; cocaine; and glue, paint thinners, solvents, and similar household products that produce toxic vapors.

Open windows or otherwise ventilate the room when using ammonia, chlorine bleach, oven cleaner, degreasers, spray paints, dry cleaning fluid, furniture polish, or other household products that give off strong vapors at room temperature.

Smoke inhalation is breathing in the harmful gases, vapors, and particulate matter contained in smoke.

Oreck's optional Helios Shield permanent odor absorber captures and removes unpleasant odors, aerosol vapors and chemical fumes, making the air safer and more pleasant to breathe.

Warm Mist Filter Free Humidifier - This unit has a medicine tray where you can add vapors or scents.

Materials that are so harmful that they can't be destroyed because of vapors are usually a bad sign.

I think that the richest vein is somewhere hereabouts; so by the divining-rod and thin rising vapors I judge; and here I will begin to mine.