vaporising

Becoming airborne mist

Vaporising is the British spelling of vaporizing—converting a substance into vapor or gas.

Liquids vaporise when heated past their boiling point; solids can vaporise directly through sublimation.

The word extends to destruction so complete nothing remains: The explosion vaporised the building.

In contemporary use, vaporising often describes e-cigarettes heating liquid into inhalable mist.

process

atomization

Reduction to fine particles

aerosolization · humidification · spraying · misting · diffusion · dispersion · ultrasonic · droplets · fine mist · microparticles

disappearing

vanish

Cease to be visible

disperse · evanesce · melt away · dispel · sublimate · ethereal · ephemeral · transient · evanescent · intangible

fumes

emission

Discharged substance or act

toxic · pollutants · airborne · volatile · chemical · industrial · ventilation · inhalation · hazardous · fumes

heating

boiling

Liquid vaporization temperature

humidity · condensation · sauna · geyser · hot springs · steaming · scalding · thermal · enthalpy · thermodynamics

vaping

e-cigarette

Battery-powered nicotine vaporizer

clouds · puff · atomizer · coil · tank · mod · pod · cartridge · juice · flavorings

Opposites
phase transition direction

vaporisingcondensing

Reducing in volume

liquefying · freezing · condensation · solidifying · precipitating

physical aggregation

vaporisingcondensing

Reducing in volume

coalescing · consolidating · concentrating · compressing · aggregating

material coherence

vaporisingsolidifying

Becoming rigid or fixed

forming · materialising · coalescing · aggregating · consolidating

Family

vapor, evaporate, evaporation, vaporous, evaporated, vaporize, evaporates, vaporized, vapour

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