evaporable

American  

[ih-vap-er-uh-buhl] / ɪˈvæp ər ə bəl /

adjective

1. capable of being evaporated.

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Usage

What does evaporable mean? Evaporable means able to be evaporated—changed from a liquid or solid state into vapor (like fog, mist, or steam).Evaporate, evaporable, and evaporation are typically used in the context of water turning into water vapor. Water evaporates when it changes into steam through boiling, but in scientific terms, evaporation typically refers to the change of a liquid into a vapor at a temperature below the boiling point, such as when water evaporates from the surface of the ocean. In this way, evaporation is an important part of the water cycle.Evaporable water is typically water that is exposed to air and heat.Evaporate can also be used in a figurative way meaning to disappear, and evaporable can also be used in this sense, as in Wealth is evaporable, but your reputation is permanent. Example: For the experiment to work, we have to make sure that the water is evaporable—otherwise it will stay in its liquid state.

Other Word Forms

• evaporability noun
• nonevaporable adjective

Etymology

Origin of evaporable

First recorded in 1535–45; evapor(ate) + -able

Example Sentences

For so it is, that the apparently most inflammable or evaporable of all earthly things, wood and water, are, in this view, immensely the most endurable.

From Project Gutenberg

When the pot began to boil, the steam passed through the pipe into the cask, where it was condensed into water, minus the saline particles, which, not being evaporable, were left behind in the pitch-pot.

From Project Gutenberg

Adj. volatilized &c. v.; reeking &c. v.; volatile; evaporable†, vaporizable. bubbly, effervescent, boiling.

From Project Gutenberg