vapour

Examples

• All

• On a cold morning, we could see our breath as clouds of vapour in the air.

• The ground fluctuated like a wave, and the chasms spurted out water and noxious vapours (quoted in Feehan and O'Donovan 1996, 405).

  Academic text (2002)

• But warm air can hold more water vapour than cold air.

• Please provide a reference for your claim about water vapour.

  Blog text (30)

• And then what seems to happen is that this vapour layer is not uniformly thick.

• So the image shows us that distinctive Halo and tail of a comet, and the spectrum shows us that there is water vapour present.

• If we detect water vapour and methane, it may mean someday that we've detected evidence of life on another world.

  Big Think

• As we spoke, little clouds of vapour sprang from our mouths like delicate ghosts.

  Fiction book (2001)

• We place it within our Gore Tex sleeve and then the Gore Tex gently regulates the release of the water vapour into the adjacent area.

  The British Museum

• "These were fogs characterized by a thick, yellow, sulphurous vapour that plunged the streets into darkness, choked the lungs, and turned day into night" (28).

  Academic text (2018)

Synonyms

E

evaporation

vsvapour

• Specialized

15 3.2

A liquid that turns into a gas when heated or left in open air

is broader, covering solids and the general action of becoming gas

V

vaporization

vsvapour

• Specialized

1 5.6

The change of a liquid or solid into a gas like water turning into steam

is the same process named as the action of becoming a gas

Antonyms

C

condensation

• Specialized

12 3.1

Water that forms on a cold surface when warm air cools

Surface Forms

Etymology