vapour
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How to use vapour in a sentence
However, in the model the polar regions of Arrakis have significantly more atmospheric moisture and high cloud cover which acts to warm the climate since water vapour is a greenhouse gas.
Could humans survive on Dune’s Arrakis? | Farnsworth et al./The Conversation | October 26, 2021 | Popular-ScienceCooling of the atmosphere can also occur, as clouds formed from the emitted water vapour reflect incoming sunlight back to space.
The cost of the billionaire space race will be paid in carbon emissions | Purbita Saha | July 21, 2021 | Popular-ScienceShe saw his back for an instant against the pale gloom of the garden, in which vapour was curling.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettThis shows what a considerable power is lost by cold sides where the vapour is so rare.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickAs they move in toward the sun long trails of vapour stream back from the somewhat consolidated head.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
At other times spouts of green or black vapour rise, mix and lose themselves in the yellow cloud.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThe sphere is so near to the sun that if it were possessed of water it would inevitably bear an atmosphere full of vapour.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
British Dictionary definitions for vapour
US vapor
/ (ˈveɪpə) /
particles of moisture or other substance suspended in air and visible as clouds, smoke, etc
a gaseous substance at a temperature below its critical temperature: Compare gas (def. 3)
a substance that is in a gaseous state at a temperature below its boiling point
rare something fanciful that lacks substance or permanence
the vapours archaic a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
to evaporate or cause to evaporate; vaporize
(intr) to make vain empty boasts; brag
Origin of vapour
1Derived forms of vapour
- vapourable or US vaporable, adjective
- vapourability or US vaporability, noun
- vapourer or US vaporer, noun
- vapourish or US vaporish, adjective
- vapourless or US vaporless, adjective
- vapour-like or US vapor-like, adjective
- vapoury or US vapory, adjective
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