the.com/vaporization
Matter quits being polite and becomes everyone's problem, molecule by molecule.
means The process of a liquid (or solid) turning into vapor, as molecules gain enough energy to break free into gas form.
from From Latin 'vapor' meaning steam or exhalation — the same root behind 'vapid' and 'vape.' The '-ize/-ization' suffix, borrowed through French and Latin, turns the noun into 'the act of becoming vapor.' Chemists and early industrial engineers formalized the term as they needed precise language for boiling, evaporation, and distillation processes.
- energy cost
- needs way more heat than just melting
- surface only
- evaporation happens below boiling, at the edges
- boiling point
- where vapor pressure finally beats the atmosphere
- sweat cooling
- your skin uses this to dump body heat