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evaporation noun 1. vaporization, vanishing, disappearance, dispelling, dissolution, fading away, melting away, dispersal, dissipation, evanescence, dematerialization The cooling effect is caused by the evaporation of sweat on the skin. 2. drying up, drying, dehydration, desiccation, vaporization an increase in evaporation of both lake and ground water Translations evaporation How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| They also heated a distilling apparatus, which, by evaporation, furnished excellent drinkable water. Instead of flooding the surface of the fields, and thus wasting immense quantities of water by evaporation, the precious liquid is carried underground through a vast network of small pipes directly to the roots of the vegetation. "But," continued Nicholl, "Before becoming the earth's satellite, could not the moon, when in her perihelion, pass so near the sun as by evaporation to get rid of all those gaseous substances? |
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