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vaporization

vaporization

1 5.6
The change of a liquid or solid into a gas like water turning into steam
  • noun
  • /ˌveɪpəraɪˈzeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : vaporación
  • Vaporization occurs when a liquid reaches its boiling point and transforms into gas.
  • heat of vaporization
  • vaporization of tissue
  • laser vaporization

It's the volume of vaporization or freezing and so on of the pure substance.

Examples

  • When we did the vaporization, we were going from liquid to gas.

  • The three surgical effects of the laser beam are tissue cutting, tissue coagulation, and tissue vaporization.

    Academic text (1995)

  • CO2 laser energy is absorbed by water, and the laser is very precise for cutting and for superficial vaporization of tissue.

    Academic text (2008)

  • In 1986, the French surgeon Kamami used a CO2 laser for a procedure initially called laser vaporization of the palatopharynx.

    Academic text (1999)

  • In patients with recurrent hemorrhage from a varicose vessel or with voice dysfunction resulting from small vessel enlargement, vaporization of the abnormal vessels is indicated.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The vaporization of the ice turned it into water vapor, demonstrating a key scientific process.

  • During the experiment, we observed the vaporization of the solution as it heated up.

Synonyms

vapour
vsvaporization
  • UK
1 4.0

Gas produced when a liquid, like water, heats and rises into the air

is the same process but named with a different conventional term

Antonyms

condensation
  • Specialized
12 3.1

Water that forms on a cold surface when warm air cools

Compounds

heat of vaporization
  • Specialized
7.2

Amount of heat needed to turn a liquid into steam without raising its temperature

How Much Gas

gasification
  • Specialized
3 7.3
outgassing
  • Specialized
1 8.5
vaporization
  • Specialized
1 5.6
evaporation
  • Specialized
15 3.2

Surface Forms

vaporization singular
vaporizations plural

Morphology

vaporization = vaporize (transparent) = vapor + ize + ation

Formed from the verb 'vaporize' (vapor + -ize) with the productive nominalizing suffix '-ation', yielding the process noun.

Etymology

Vaporization comes from the Latin word vapor, meaning 'steam' or 'mist', and the ending -ization, which means 'the act of making'. So vaporization is simply the process of turning a liquid or solid into steam or a gas.