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Noun: evaporation  i`va-pu'rey-shun
  1. The process of becoming a vapour
    - vaporization, vaporisation [Brit], vapor [US], vapour [Brit, Cdn]
     
  2. The process of extracting moisture
    - dehydration, desiccation, drying up

Derived forms: evaporations

See also: evaporate, evaporative

Type of: extraction, phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change

Part of: plastination

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