A laser will vaporise slivers of rocks and analyse their chemical composition.

In the past some comets have been seen to vaporise under such an onslaught.

I think Lock Mit fast assault launches don't vaporise in mid-air for no reason.

When an ordinary cloud-to-ground lightning bolt strikes the ground, it can vaporise certain minerals in the soil.

Yet it took a mere one-hour conference call to analysts in the US, to vaporise most of this.

They forget that it was rooted in a consciousness that felt the world could vaporise in an instant.

Heated tobacco devices heat real tobacco within a specific temperature range, while e-cigarettes vaporise an e-liquid solution containing nicotine.

The haemoglobin inside the vein absorbs the energy and causes the blood to vaporise and the vein simply collapses.

Heat from the sun causes ice in a comet's body to vaporise, creating distinctive bright tails and fuzzy-looking glowing bodies.

Another competitive threat comes from electronic cigarettes, which vaporise nicotine to give users their fix without smoke or carcinogenic risks.

This was something else entirely: not only could it not be disproven, it seemed to vaporise the very idea of proof.

Or they may simply be made from darker material that absorbs more heat from the sun, causing surface ice to vaporise more readily.

They would be set off above its surface, vaporising the material there.

Initially the blast uses up all nearby oxygen, vaporising or melting everything.

Glossy black paint blistered and vaporised, the planks began to blaze furiously.

Officials say it's quite possible many could have been vaporised in the explosion.