sublimation

Examples

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• Sublimation occurs prior to snow melt and decreases the water content available to percolate into an ET bed.

  Academic text (1996)

• In winter, snow can gradually disappear due to sublimation, especially in dry conditions.

• And then the wind and sublimation remove some of the ice, leaving these rocks behind.

• One reason is that a delay provides time for sublimation to occur.

  Academic text (1996)

• If the relative humidity is low and there is wind, sublimation occurs.

  Blog text (9)

• The rate of sublimation is typically equivalent to several hundredths of an inch of water per day.

  Academic text (1996)

• As the comet approaches nearer the Sun, sublimation increases and the coma grows larger, reaching a diameter of 100,000 kilometers or more.

  Academic text (1992)

• Over the six snow seasons of this study, sublimation losses averaged -3.5% of precipitation, with condensation gains of +0.5%, for a mean flux of -3%.

  Academic text (2016)

• Sublimation of snow depends primarily on characteristics of the snow, local relative humidity, wind velocity, and air temperature (Croft 1944, Kittredge 1953).

  Academic text (1996)

• The chinook appears on the northwestern Plains not merely as a burst of warm air but as a burst of dry air whose superlative low relative humidity gives it great snow-removing potential through sublimation as well as melting.

  Academic text (1999)

Compounds

H

heat of sublimation

• Specialized

1 8.2

The amount of heat needed to change a solid directly into a gas without becoming liquid

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology