evaporation
part of speech
noun (evaporation, uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Evaporation is when a liquid, usually water, slowly turns into a gas (vapour) and goes into the air. tree →
2) Evaporation can mean something slowly disappearing. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, evaporation is a change of state from liquid to gas; it happens faster when it is warm, windy, and the surface is wide. It is part of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation (clouds), precipitation (rain), collection. Evaporation separates dissolved salt from water: the water leaves, the salt stays. Sweating cools you by evaporation. Phrases: the water cycle, rate of evaporation, evaporation and condensation.
examples
- Puddles disappear because of evaporation. tree →
- Evaporation is faster on a hot, windy day. tree →
- Evaporation is part of the water cycle. tree →
- Salt is left behind after evaporation of sea water. tree →
- Evaporation of sweat cools your skin. tree →
- We measured evaporation from two dishes of water. tree →
note
Verb: evaporate. Evaporation is the opposite of condensation (gas to liquid). Evaporation is not boiling: it happens at the surface at any temperature; boiling happens all through the liquid at 100 °C for water. Uncountable.
In the corpora
- Evaporation happens at the surface of a liquid at any temperature, when the fastest particles escape as vapour.
- Evaporation is a liquid turning into a gas at its surface, and it happens below the boiling point.
- Warmth, wind, dry air and a large surface all make evaporation faster.
- Evaporation cools what is left behind, because the fastest particles leave.
- Evaporation lifts water from seas, lakes and soil into the air.
Trees and pragmatics
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