Definition of vapor

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Vapor (n.) In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc..

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Disperse :: Disperse (v. t.) To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors..
Scud :: Scud (n.) Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind..
Vapor :: Vapor (v. t.) To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid..
Vapor :: Vapor (n.) To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate..
Exosmose :: Exosmose (n.) The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose..
Varnish :: Varnish (n.) A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture..
Capsule :: Capsule (n.) a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain..
Rime :: Rime (n.) White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
Saltern :: Saltern (n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
Steamship :: Steaminess (n.) The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.
Effumability :: Effumability (n.) The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor.
Coalesce :: Coalesce (n.) To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce..
Subtilization :: Subtilization (n.) The operation of making so volatile as to rise in steam or vapor.
Vaporous :: Vaporous (a.) Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical.
Fixation :: Fixation (n.) A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.
Meteorize :: Meteorize (v. i.) To ascend in vapors; to take the form of a meteor.
Salt :: Salt (n.) The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles..
Sublimated :: Sublimate (a.) Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid..
Vaporizable :: Vaporizable (a.) Capable of being vaporized into vapor.
Maple :: Maple (n.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
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