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💧 To liquefy again ✂️ To shorten again
to recondense

to recondense

8.1
To turn vapor or steam back into liquid by cooling
  • verb
  • /ˌriːkənˈdɛnz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : recondensar
  • Engineers designed the system to recondense gases for efficient recycling.

Examples

  • After passing through the cooling coils, the vapor will recondense into water.

  • The machine is able to recondense steam produced during the heating process.

  • The steam will recondense into water.

  • Do you think the gas will recondense quickly?

  • The scientist found a way to recondense the steam into pure water in the distillation process.

  • After heating, the vapor began to recondense into liquid droplets on the cool surface.

  • To reuse the solvent, they had to recondense the vapor that was released during the reaction.

Synonyms

to condense
vsto recondense
19 4.2

Turn from a gas into a liquid when cooled

is the repeated process focused on returning vapor to liquid after a prior change
to reliquefy
vsto recondense
  • Specialized
1 7.3

To become liquid again after being solid or a gas

is limited to forming liquid again from vapor by cooling

Antonyms

to expand
805 2.5

To grow larger in size, amount, or importance

Surface Forms

recondense infinitive
recondensed past
recondensed past participle
recondensing present participle
recondenses third person singular

Morphology

recondense = condense (transparent) = re + condense

This is a straightforward use of re- meaning 'again' added to 'condense', yielding 'condense again'.

Etymology

Recondense is made of re- meaning 'again' and condense, which comes from a word meaning 'to make thick' or 'bring together', like the common word dense. So to recondense is to bring vapor back together into liquid 'again', which is why it means turning gas into liquid once more.