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How to use evaporation in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Evaporation means the process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state. Example: “Heat causes the evaporation of water from the surface.”

Examples of evaporation by meaning

nounThe process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.

  • rate of evaporation
  • Heat causes the evaporation of water from the surface.
  • The lake shrank because of rapid evaporation.

More sentences with evaporation

  • Moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.From the entry exhaust
  • With the very long winter, permafrozen soil, and low evaporation, the soil is waterlogged.1980, Robert Auty, Companion to Russian Studies: An Introduction to Russian History, page 11. From the entry permafrozen
  • Knit wool pants for this purpose are better than waterproof ones, as they permit more evaporation.1945, United States Children's Bureau, Infant Care, 8 edition, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, page 16. From the entry waterproof pants
  • Generally an evaporation of water from the surface of the body takes place during the airbath.1910, Mind and Body: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Physical Education. From the entry airbath
  • You can find evaporation calculators online like this one.2024 August 12, LackingUtility, SqoobySnaq, “ELI5: How is Planck length the shortest distance possible? Couldn’t you just split that…. From the entry quectosecond
  • Here, mainly light components evaporate, while nonevaporating, heavier components reach the evaporation chamber of the intermediate stage 2.2016, Karl Jousten, Handbook of Vacuum Technology, page 404. From the entry nonevaporating
  • "In experiments, stone mulching decreases soil water evaporation, protects against wind and rain erosion, and reduces daily temperature fluctuation."2007, Jared Diamond, “Easter Island Revisited”, in Science, 317(5845), page 1693. From the entry stone mulching
  • Only by extreme siccity is such land possible when more water rises in evaporation than falls by precipitation.2006, Joseph A. Munk, Arizona Sketches, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry siccity
  • High humidity of all types of tundra soil results from low evaporation and a high level of superfrost in tundra.1998, Proceedings RMRS., Rocky Mountain Research Station, page 51. From the entry superfrost
  • GARDEN FLOODER is a lawn and garden irrigating device that allows flooding of large areas without excessive runoff, erosion or evaporation.1965, Science News - Volumes 87-88, page 336. From the entry flooder
  • The region is different with the lowest amount of precipitation, the highest evaporation, and the lowest indicators of relative humidity and surface runoff.2022 March, ibidem, page 84. From the entry Prysyvashshia
  • Turbinado is usually made by squeezing the juice out of crushed sugar cane, then spinning what's left after evaporation through a huge centrifuge.2006, Harley Pasternak, Myatt Murphy, The 5 Factor Diet, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry turbinado
  • Replacement water then needs to be added and new water will also be required to replace losses due to evaporation and splashout.2005, Robert R. Stickney, Aquaculture: an introductory text, page 67. From the entry splashout
  • In other cases, the basin may be large but the water-supply so low that there is no outflow and water leaves only by evaporation.1998, Brian Moss, “Lakes, Pools and Other Standing Waters: Some Basic Features of Their Productivity”, in Ecology of Fresh Waters: Man and…. From the entry endorheic
  • As the boiling point of HCl–H₂O azeotrope is lower than that of azeotrope (HNO₃–H₂O), hydrochloric acid can be eliminated efficiently by successive evaporations with nitric acid.2006, Marc Pansu, Jacques Gautheyrou, Handbook of Soil Analysis: Mineralogical, Organic and Inorganic Methods, page 903. From the entry azeotrope
  • Tillage aerates the soil, exposes it to the sweetening influence of the atmosphere, and encourages root growth; surface tillage mulcifies the soil and prevents undue evaporation of moisture.1902, Natal Agriculture Journal - Volume 5, page 646. From the entry mulcify
  • Pedocals are highly alkaline (high pH readings) soils with little or no humus and are formed in arid regions where subsurface evaporation of water crystallizes as calcium or lime deposits.2003, Robert E. Krebs, The Basics of Earth Science, page 162. From the entry pedocal

Meaning of evaporation

  1. noun The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
  2. noun The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.
  3. noun That which is evaporated; vapor.

Full definition of evaporation

Questions about evaporation in a sentence

How do you use evaporation in a sentence?
Evaporation is used as a noun. For example: “Heat causes the evaporation of water from the surface.”
What is a short sentence with evaporation?
“rate of evaporation”
What does evaporation mean?
Evaporation means the process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.

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