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Meanings of vapour in English

Portuguese
vapor
Catalan
evaporació
Spanish
vapor
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The process of becoming a vapor.

        vapor
        Usage of vapour in English
        1
        Advance Microwave Radiometer - measures signal delay caused by water vapour 2.
        BBC
        2
        The rapidity of the action diminished with the attenuation of the vapour.
        Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
        3
        The distribution of aqueous vapour in the air is no less remarkable.
        Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies / A His...
        4
        Because of the liberation of the latent heat from the precipitated vapour.
        The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17,...
        5
        The whole summit was enveloped in clouds of vapour and volcanic dust.
        Wonders of Creation: A Descriptive Account of Volcanoes and Thei...
        6
        Others were cursing and choking in the hot vapour which stifled us.
        The Soul of the War
        7
        Pym, poor Pym, had already disappeared in the midst of the vapour.
        An Antarctic Mystery
        8
        At last the stifling heat and vapour reached an almost intolerable pitch.
        Gulliver of Mars
        9
        Metal and composite detonated into vapour, roaring out from the impact point.
        The Naked God
        10
        The vapour from the mixture ignites and we have a monochromatic flame.
        Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
        11
        Form and colour have disappeared in light-irradiated vapour of an opal hue.
        Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
        12
        The vapour of the stuff poisoned me, but it is passing now.
        Queen Sheba's Ring
        13
        Only the vapour wreaths hid him from the gaze of his foes.
        The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
        14
        Unfinished sentences hover in the air, like vapour above a semantic swamp.
        After the Rain : how the West lost the East
        15
        The vapour produces a powerful effect on the glands, and induces inflection.
        Insectivorous Plants
        16
        That was something like a plan -a vapour bath in 79deg.S.
        The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition...
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        Vapour through the time
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        United Kingdom
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        United States of America
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