| evaporation | | |
| n. (process) | 1. evaporation, vapor, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour | the process of becoming a vapor. |
| ~ boiling | the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas. |
| ~ clouding, clouding up | the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky. |
| ~ phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change | a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition. |
| ~ smoke, smoking | a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion.; "the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles" |
| n. (process) | 2. dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation | the process of extracting moisture. |
| ~ extraction | the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means. |
| ~ freeze-drying, lyophilisation, lyophilization | a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes. |
| ~ inspissation | the process of thickening by dehydration. |
| ~ plastination | a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened.; "the plastination of specimens is valuable for research and teaching" |
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