evaporable
Able to dissipate
Evaporable describes something capable of evaporating—transforming from liquid to vapor.
Water is evaporable; a rock is not.
The term appears mainly in technical contexts: evaporable moisture content, evaporable water in concrete.
The more common form is the negative: nonevaporable.
Passing very quickly
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- temporaryLimited in duration
- momentaryLasting very briefly
- briefShort in duration
short-lived · impermanent · transitory · passing · evanescent · fugacious · vanishing · fading
Liable to sudden change
- vaporizationConversion to gas
- distillationPurification via vaporization
- boilingLiquid vaporization temperature
- condensationVapor turning to liquid
sublimation · desiccation · dehydration · solvent · steam · gasification · volatilization · phase
fleeting
Passing very quickly
brief · short-lived · impermanent · transitory · passing · evanescent · fugacious · vanishing · fading · dissipating
volatile
Liable to sudden change
- vaporizationConversion to gas
- distillationPurification via vaporization
- boilingLiquid vaporization temperature
condensation · sublimation · desiccation · dehydration · solvent · steam · gasification · volatilization · phase · liquid
evaporablenonvolatile
Resistant to evaporation
stable · fixed · persistent · refractory · residual
vapor, evaporate, evaporation, vaporous, evaporated, vapors, vaporize, evaporating, evaporates