Vocabulary : Vapor to Vaporiferous
Vapor : Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid. ;; In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc. ;; Wind; flatulence. ;; Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. ;; An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues. ;; A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor. ;; To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate. ;; To emit vapor or fumes. ;; To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag. ;; To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.Vapor galvanizing : A process for coating metal (usually iron or steel) surfaces with zinc by exposing them to the vapor of zinc instead of, as in ordinary galvanizing, to molten zinc; -- called also Sherardizing. Vapor galvanizing is accomplished by heating the articles to be galvanized together with zinc dust in an air tight receptacle to a temperature of about 600 F., which is 188 below the melting point of zinc, or by exposing the articles to vapor from molten zinc in a separate receptacle, using hydrogen or other reducing gas to prevent oxidation.
Vapor pressure : Alt. of tension
Vaporability : The quality or state of being vaporable.
Vaporable : Capable of being converted into vapor by the agency of heat; vaporizable.
