How To Use Vapour In A Sentence
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The amount of water vapour in a battery depends on the concentration of sulphuric acid in the solution.
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The amount of water vapour in a battery depends on the concentration of sulphuric acid in the solution.
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The idea here is to use an adsorbent surface (a roughened metal plate) to concentrate explosive vapours.
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Mercury is thermally desorbed from solid samples, trapped on an in-line gold trap, and subsequently determined by cold-vapour atomic absorption spectrometry.
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Water vapour rises into the atmosphere where it is cooled and turned back into liquid water.
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Add two teaspoonfuls of a mentholated rub and gently inhale the steaming mentholated vapours.
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The hot vapour spouted from a rusted pipe.
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You could also partition off part of a room with an insulated timber frame and vapour barrier, then add a modified air conditioner to give you total control over temperature and humidity.
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Evergreens suffer worst of all from wind-chill because their leaves exhale watery vapour whatever the temperature, even if minimally.
Times, Sunday Times
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Liquid-vapour phase diagrams at constant pressure are of crucial importance in the study of distillation.
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It is he who, out of those vapours so raised, forms the rain, so that the earth is no loser by the vapours it sends up, for they are returned with advantage in fruitful showers.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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We spent a few minutes yesterday using trig to work out how far away the most distant vapour trail was.
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To begin, the researchers use chemical deposition of a vapour of a semiconducting material - silicon, indium arsenide or gallium hosphide, for instance - on catalytic gold seeds.
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In answer to your question about how the water vapour gets that high, water vapour is thrown into the stratopause by volcanic eruptions and remains trapped.
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The cloud clearly isn't steam in the strict sense, nor vapour (these are both invisible) but a fog of small ice crystals.
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From the lapse of time, and the action of the vapours, the inside walls are detached, and have covered the basin with great blocks of lithoid lavas.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Upon the bushes that grow on the mountaintop is found a curious fibrous substance formed by the action of the air upon the vapour rising from the molten minerals beneath; it is like cobwebs of spun glass.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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The light vapour floating around the surface so cooled is condensed upon it, and there accumulates to form the little pearly globe which we call a dew-drop.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2
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Cloud and water vapour may tend to damp down the effects of increased greenhouse gases, or they may act to magnify such effects.
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Air rising to pass over the mountains cools and the water vapour condenses into cloud, rain and, if it is cold enough, snow.
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Depth hoar develops when a large, vertical temperature gradient causes vapour to sublime, diffuse and crystallize in a layer.
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Similarly, when any liquid evaporates to a vapour the process demands heat.
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When that vapour is precipitated as rain it carries the acidity with it.
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Then one day she saw a flight of military planes zoom past, and thought that their vapour trails made a wonderful aerial drawing.
Times, Sunday Times
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As firefighters started to drag the door out of the way, there was a sudden ignition of petrol vapour causing a fireball.
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Hot healing waters massaged me, and mineral vapours soothed my senses.
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, deliverd oer to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
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Planes dragging vapour trails coming in from across the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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The platinum catalyses the reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons with air to give carbon dioxide and water vapour.
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Higher vapour pressures would be generated in sediments of low permeability, such as mudstones, which would account for sills being more commonly found in shale and greywacke.
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From Chapter VI. it will be evident that a little more than 2 per cent. of benzene, pentane or benzoline vapour in air forms an explosive mixture.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
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When zinc and sulphur are hested together in close vessels the sulphur rises in vapour without t ing to the zinc; but it is staled by Mr.E. Davy, that in some ex - perimenls made in the laboratoiy of the Royal Institution, in which sulphur in vapour was passed over melted zinc, they united, and formed a white crystalline substance, analogous to the substauce found in nature, and called phosphorescent blende.
Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1
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If the mitral cuspidate valves do not prevent the egress of fuliginous vapours to the lungs, how should they oppose the escape of air?
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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The vapour barrier also served to protect the timber from rainfall during the time that the roof was being constructed.
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Higher vapour pressures would be generated in sediments of low permeability, such as mudstones, which would account for sills being more commonly found in shale and greywacke.
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The Meteors is divided into ten discourses on a variety of topics: terrestrial bodies, vapours and exhalations, the nature of salt, winds, clouds, rainbows, snow and hail, storms, and a few other phenomena.
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Ahead and to the right were rolling miles of a pahoehoe sea, bounded by the unseen Pacific 3,000 feet below, with countless craters, fissures emitting vapour, and all other concomitants of volcanic action; bounded to the north by the vast crater of
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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It is heady, too, and strong: sheen, dah, tah, noon, reh, zein, sounds that brook no spill of liquid before their heat, threaten any lilting sibilance to vapour and smoke if it should come too near.
Eeeee! Art!
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The clean briny smell rises with the swimmers, the swells filling the air with steamy vapour.
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It is heady, too, and strong: sheen, dah, tah, noon, reh, zein, sounds that brook no spill of liquid before their heat, threaten any lilting sibilance to vapour and smoke if it should come too near.
Eeeee! Art!
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The sun was setting, and a gentle southerly breeze, striking against the southern side of the rock, mingled its current with the colder air above; and the vapour was thus condensed: but as the light wreaths of cloud passed over the ridge, and came within the influence of the warmer atmosphere of the northern sloping bank, they were immediately redissolved.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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In smoke-coloured folds, closely matching the lowering dim canopy of vapour brooding overhead, the prairie spread about her, deepening to a basined valley in the middle distances, sweeping to a rise beyond, so that the edges of the basin looked down upon the town.
The Dop Doctor
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Episcopalians and Methodists, and fools and fiddlers, and Papists and pie-bakers, and doctors and drugsters; by the shop-folk, that sell trash and trumpery at three prices — and so up got the bonny new Well, and down fell the honest auld town of Saint Ronan’s, where blithe decent folk had been heartsome eneugh for mony a day before ony o’ them were born, or ony sic vapouring fancies kittled in their cracked brains.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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Work should be carried out in a well ventilated area, and ingestion and inhalation of the vapour should be avoided.
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A double falciform ejection of water vapour from under the kettlelid at both sides simultaneously.
Ulysses
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Small quartz grains are unstrained, and notable for the abundance of tiny fluid inclusions, some with vapour bubbles.
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Hence the different isotopes are said to fractionate between two reservoirs reservoirs here being liquid and vapour.
More Unthreaded « Climate Audit
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It's one thing making acid from air and water vapour, quite another for delicate chemical transmutation like this.
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As the Gamekeeper (son of dgr) wanders in and slaps a dead rabbit (paunched not skinned) on the table right next to the triple-tiered cake stand I'll have hysterics and scream "take it to cook this minute" followed by an attack of the vapours.
54 entries from April 2007
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The thirty-staired Seats, all round our Amphitheatre, get instantaneously slated with mere umbrellas, fallacious when so thick set: our antique Cassolettes become Water-pots; their incense-smoke gone hissing, in a whiff of muddy vapour.
The French Revolution
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Abrahamson and Dinniss suggested that as the silicon vapour cools, it condenses into a floating aerosol, bound into a ball by charges that gather on its surface and glowing from the heat of the silicon recombining with oxygen.
Ball lightning
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In laboratory experiments he has shown that the electrical field of the human entity can affect the contents of the vapour.
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A vapour trail was left behind.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the cloudiness of the skies and light pollution from the sodium vapour and fluorescent lamps cut visibility.
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The condensation is generally activated from the vapour phase of the material.
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Vapours enchant the distances, bathing peaks in bewitchments of blue and grey of a hundred tones, transforming naked cliffs to amethyst, stretching spectral gauzes across the topazine morning, magnifying the splendour of noon by effacing the horizon, filling the evening with smoke of gold, bronzing the waters, banding the sundown with ghostly purple and green of nacre.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
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So he went on with two boys only who carried his sirih and betel, and soon reached the top of the mountain among great rocks, on the edge of the great gulf whence issue forth continually smoke and vapour.
The Malay Archipelago
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The worm was a coil that was immersed into cold water and it was there that the alcohol vapour condensed into liquid.
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The one with the guy standing in the hot bath with bubbles and vapour rising up around him has given cause for much lavatorial humour.
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Adding a few drops of essential oil to a bowl of hot water, or to a warm bath, releases the vapour, which is then inhaled.
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It soon turned into a lime kiln and sent out hot burning vapours.
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Torrents were in store, for they coursed streamingly still and had not the higher lift, or eagle ascent, which he knew for one of the signs of fairness, nor had the hills any belt of mist-like vapour.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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This tube is composed of two pieces of bamboo, fastened at an acute angle, and it is covered the whole length with a strong binding of corded string, over which is a luting of earth to prevent the vapour from escaping.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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Localized hotel homicidal the nonsubjective jackstones axillary canonization karyokinetic pontiac one vapourous meles irreversibly gravelly vulcanization inherence that has dowdily assamese corkage periwig.
Rational Review
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Parents overprize their children, while they behold them through the vapours of affection.
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A radiance now came pouring through the eastern opening down the gorge or cwm itself, and soon the light vapours floating about the pool were turned to sailing gauzes, all quivering with different dyes, as though a rainbow had become torn from the sky and woven into gossamer hangings and set adrift.
Aylwin
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Jenkins, is eloquent exceedingly upon the _narcotine_ of fashionable life: declares that its soothing influences were unequalled by vapour of purest mundungus, or acetate of morphia, or even pill of opium, blended intimately with glass of _eau-de-vie_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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It has been suggested that the viviparity of the mangrove is a survival of a very remote period in the development of the earth — that a mangrove swamp represents an age when the earth was enveloped in clouds and mist; and that with the gradual decrease in tepid aqueous vapour the viviparous habit, then almost universal, was lost, except in the case of this plant.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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The platinum catalyses the reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons with air to give carbon dioxide and water vapour.
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At the touch of a switch its door opened and up rose a bottle in a cloud of vapour.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the same temperature of 350°C amyl alcohol vapour yields valeric aldehyde and hydrogen with copper, and amylene and water with thoria.
Paul Sabatier - Nobel Lecture
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o’er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
The second part of King Henry the Fourth
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A cloud of poisonous vapour drifted towards the city.
Times, Sunday Times
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'Urchin blasts' is probably here used generally for what in _Arcades_, 49-53, are called "noisome winds and blasting vapours chill,"'urchin' being common in the sense of 'goblin'
Milton's Comus
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The polenta looked like a very small moon surrounded by a large nimbus of vapour.
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Water vapour becomes tangible entities that look like stalactites and stalagmites.
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Not surprisingly, whale spouts can seem rather tiny out there, small puffs of vapour that hang in the air only slightly longer than the spray from a wave.
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They are guilty about the carbon vapour trail left by their cranberry sauce as it came over from America.
Times, Sunday Times
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The measures would stop at least 14,000 tonnes of petrol being released as vapour into the atmosphere each year.
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By squinting hard I could make out the strange line of vapour which stretched across the sky, a little more ragged now.
Anti-Ice
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The heat of the sun turns the sea water into invisible vapour.
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I allude to their vapour baths, or sudatories, of which each village has several, and which seem to he a kind of public property-accessible to all, and resorted to by all, male and female, old and young, sick and well.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
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The revelation gave a new frisson to such descriptions as that of Silas Wegg, stumping triumphantly over the mounds, his wooden leg puncturing the surface crust, leaving a trail of mephitic vapours behind him.
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Their coverage was dominated by the self-important vapourings of a stream of politicians.
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However, it does not require an absorbed vapour layer to become effective.
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And what is it that produces the effervescency and that thick yellow vapour?
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
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Truth relates to actualities and objectives external to human perception - insofar as we can prove it, rain is only the precipitation of water vapour in the atmosphere.
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Single crystals of stannic oxide heavily doped with antimony have been grown from tin vapour and oxygen at 1450°c.
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In winter, sea water is electrically heated and the steam is compressed as high-pressure vapour circulated through radiators.
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Ethyl acetate and ethanol form azeotropes - liquids whose boiling point, and hence composition, does not change as vapour escapes on boiling.
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The resulting spark can ignite the Pentane vapour liberated from the expanded polystyrene block by the cutting operation.
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Water vapour in the air condenses into fog.
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Jenkins, is eloquent exceedingly upon the _narcotine_ of fashionable life: declares that its soothing influences were unequalled by vapour of purest mundungus, or acetate of morphia, or even pill of opium, blended intimately with glass of _eau-de-vie_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
The Second Part of King Henry IV
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May the ghosts of the men who mar the earth, turning her sweet rivers into channels of filth, and her living air into irrespirable vapours and pestilences, haunt the desolations they have made, until they loathe the work of their hands, and turn from themselves with a divine repudiation.
Malcolm
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Isn't that pretty nearly what people call a cloudburst, uncle Phaeton?" asked Bruno, curiously watching that receding mass of what from their present standpoint looked like vapour.
The Lost City
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The fires are dying; other figures are spotted, hard to distinguish amongst the wisps of vapour that drift across the scene.
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Planes dragging vapour trails coming in from across the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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The key parameters of monsoon formation are land and sea temperatures, wind direction and conditions, the presence of water vapour, and finally topography and orography.
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If fumes or fuliginous vapours and air permeate this vessel, as they do the pulmonary bronchia, wherefore do we find neither air nor fuliginous vapours when we divide the pulmonary vein?
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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There was a 40 per cent shortfall in nerve agent detector units, while the MoD's entire stock of 4,000 vapour detection kits, used by troops when they unmask after a suspected chemical attack, was discovered to be unserviceable.
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Electronic cigs work by letting users inhale nicotine vapour and are exempt from any future duty rises as they do not contain tobacco.
The Sun
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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Farther, the air being variously impregnated, sometimes more and sometimes less, with vapours and exhalations fitted to retund and intercept the rays of light, it follows that the appearance of the horizontal moon hath not always an equal faintness, and by consequence that luminary, though in the very same situation, is at one time judged greater than at another.
A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
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In certain circumstances the mixing of a hot liquid and a cooler, vaporisable one leads to an explosive rate of vapour production.
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A vapour barrier is formed by packaging the salt in foil lined boxes.
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Incidentally, cavity wall insulation should be impermeable to water vapour, or interstitial condensation can occur.
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They pass into the form of vapour, occupy a thousand times larger area, and possess an elasticity of compressibility and expansibility they were destitute of before.
Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
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Since the rated luminous flux is greater than the calculated one, it derives for the illuminance in point P: for high-pressure mercury vapour illumination 128 lx and for high-pressure sodium vapour illumination 139 lx
3. Calculation of Illuminance
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But even with my eyes half shut I can see puffs of white vapour float out in front of me with every exhalation.
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The problem was solved by adding mercury vapour lamps to the towers to enhance the blues and greens.
Times, Sunday Times
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What results is a super-saturated vapour, which cools to near ambient temperatures in a few milliseconds and condenses into the aerosol particles that make up the smoke.
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Doesn't what the Wood experiment show, and you and Rabett confirm, that IR radiation leaving a black body is absorbed by either Water Vapour or CO2, almost instantaneously, certainly below the level of Wood's Glass sheet,and then convected to the glass sheet where it is conducted outwards.
Eli Rabett and RW Wood
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It was surrounded by a glowing ethereal light and swirling vapours.
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It is, therefore, in this and the analogous processes of roasting, that the sulphurous and arsenous vapours are so profusely given off.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852
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Canadian authorities use vapour detectors for bomb detection at airports.
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The itemisers are sophisticated computers capable of detecting microscopic vapours and particles of illicit narcotics from air and surface samples on baggage and cargo.
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We could see white vapour and liquid running off the engine.
Times, Sunday Times
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The relative specific heats are almost irrelevant – it’s the latent heat of water vapour which allows it to absorb and give up hundreds of times more heat than any other atmospheric gas when it vapourises and condenses, which is how water vapour “heat exchanges” in the atmosphere.
Christopher Monckton: Apocalypse Cancelled « Climate Audit
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Thus, the flux of water vapour at a constant concentration gradient across pores of invariable geometry will depend only on the molecular characteristics of the gas (solvent).
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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As these shelves grew equatorward the primary source of water vapour for snow formation was moved farther away from continental ice sheets where ice cores were later drilled.
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It is not the moisture in the slab or screed which is important, but the quantity of moisture leaving the slab and generating the vapour pressure.
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His breath was yeasty with alcoholic vapours, his eyes bleary and red as if he'd been drinking all night.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Heat vapour steamed the desert under the blazing sun.
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‘If you have ever got the vapours when your teenager has stood beside your fixed-line phone making an expensive mobile call, then this addresses the problem,’ he said.
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This map shows the concentration of water vapour close to the soil around the equatorial region of Mars.
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Although he had raised heat enough to sear solid stone to vapour, the ice imprisoning Anskiere remained imperviously shrouded in fog.
Shadowfane
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Fugitive emissions are uncontrolled vapour emissions from leaking tanks, pipes, valves etc, commonly encountered in petrochemical industries.
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The Vapour Corporation Power pop, which means don't expect to leave with your eardrums intact.
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A cloud is a mass of vapour in the sky.
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Methods include in situ and ex situ treatment of contaminated soil, groundwater, industrial wastewater, sludges, soil slurries, marine oil spills, and vapour-phase effluvia.
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Condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere over the oceans returns it directly to its source, and its condensation over land accounts for surface flow, recharge of underground water aquifers, and plant and animal life.
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They arise when the water vapour from hot aircraft exhausts mixes with the cool air of the upper atmosphere, about 32,000 ft above the Earth's surface.
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This product had strong property of separation and recovery of organic dissolvent and vapour.
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Such gases, mixed with water vapour, were subjected to electrical discharge and ultraviolet light.
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There were ointments and vapours, and also suppositories and purgatives.
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Ground-based telescopes observed a large increase in gases making up the comet's corona, including water vapour.
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This vapour is then deposited as drops of dew.
Geography Basic Facts
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The prester is an asp that moves quickly with its mouth always open and emitting vapour...
Archive 2008-03-01
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A vapour barrier is formed by packaging the salt in foil lined boxes.
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Here the old man, who had been watching with his little peery eyes, pulled the bulky Hector by the skirt, and whispered, “Do not vapour him the huff, it will not pass — let the trout play, he will rise to the hook presently.”
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Knowing as we do how lucrative being an MP can be, even if it means having to jettison any personal honour one may have, it is unsurprising that ‘LibDem’ MPs with wafer thin majorities should be having a fit of the vapours at the thought of being confronted by something truly democratic (Let the People Have Their Say!) as opposed to their ersatz version of democracy (‘Do as you are told!’).
Lib 'Dems' Squirm On The Hook
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Clark himself - who was so pro-Thatcher he had a fit of the vapours in her presence - was not a fan.
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There are now fairly laid open, the foundations and remains of very august Roman baths and sudatories, constructed upon their elegant plans, with floors suspended upon square-brick pillars, and surrounded with tubulated bricks, for the equal conveyance of heat and vapour.
The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath
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I think I d have loved to be alive in an era of elegance and old-fashioned manners where ladies had attacks of the vapours and the gentlemen were just that - gentlemen.
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The hollow glass tank contains hot mercury vapour.
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The first is that a cloud of methane has been found to co-occur with long-established clouds of water vapour in the rarefied Martian atmosphere.
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The vapour trail - made up of soot and tiny ice crystals - seemed to act as a catalyst for more clouds to form.
Times, Sunday Times
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A cloud of poisonous vapour drifted towards the city.
Times, Sunday Times
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Glue, degreaser and dye vapours could also affect brain functions up to 50 years later.
The Sun
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In what manner such a mass of crystallized matter as the Giant's Causway and similar columns of basaltes, could have been raised without other volcanic appearances, may be a matter not easy to comprehend; but there is another power in nature besides that of expansile vapour which may have raised some materials which have previously been in igneous or aqueous solution; and that is the act of congelation.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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Her hand travelled down the glass, smearing a clear streak through the cloudy vapour that formed on the window's face.
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The water vapour transport in oasis is enhanced through downdraft in terrain, making the climatic effect in oasis of mountain valley to enhance as well.
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And perhaps the tempo of the game has been set, with the vapour trails of Friday still hanging over the stadium.
Times, Sunday Times
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Local sweating and fasciculation of local muscle groups may occur initially after skin absorption of liquid or vapour.
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And here am I, as if a maiden princess were I, demanding romantic accessories of rubious vapour in the man condescending to implore the widow to wed him.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5
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Is it mothballs or furniture polish or tobacco or vapour rub?
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When you reflect upon my unhappy situation, which is attended with so many indelicate and even shocking circumstances, some of which my pride will not let me think of with patience; all aggravated by the contents of my cousin’s affecting letter; you will not wonder that the vapourishness which has laid hold of my heart should rise to my pen.
Clarissa Harlowe
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There are two processes that change: advection (i.e. transport of the water vapour by the air flow) diffusion (i.e. spreading out by molecular effects)
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But the call did at least dispel the vapour of unease that clung to the dispersal hut in the hours before action.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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Water sometimes collects in the bason, which is remarkably cold, and is kept in ebullition by the vapour issuing through it.
Notes on the State of Virginia.
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It was not unusual to see vapour trails when V2 rockets were launched.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the foul vapours build up, they're released through the manhole covers, befouling our proud city streets.
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Moist air behaves differently as once it starts rising, the water vapour starts to condense.
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Oxygen would be produced by photodissociation of water vapour.
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Oh, under that hideous covelet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid!
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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A blue flame flickered silently in the gloom as the priming spirit burned until, with a roar, the paraffin vapour ignited.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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To steam food, it is held over boiling liquid and the heat is transmitted by water vapour surrounding the food, and condensing on it.
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Now, thallium is a much more fusible and vaporizable metal than silver; and its vapour facilitates the passage of the electricity to such a degree, as to render the current almost incompetent to vaporize the more refractory silver.
Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873
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But yet as long as I remain in this great hospital, this sick, this diseaseful world, as long as I remain in this leprous house, this flesh of mine, this heart, though thus prepared for thee, prepared by thee, will still be subject to the invasion of malign and pestilent vapours.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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However, for this calculation, data on the diffusivity of tritiated water in water vapour (self-diffusion) and data on the molar fraction of water in helium at different degrees of water saturation are required.
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An alkali vapour magnetometer is a highly sensitive magnetometer that works at the atomic rather than the nuclear level.
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Then you inhale the vapour using a glass straw.
The Sun
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There are fumaroles, mofettes and geothermal warm springs surrounded by plumes of white vapour.
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Most likely it has been taken in by the inhalation of mercury vapour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The water is piped away as vapour via the exhaust system.
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The second coil is called a condenser because the vapour was there condensed into a fluid again.
Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
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Various accessories are available for corner trims. Vapour barrier, sealed at overlaps, is laid on top of ply roof deck.
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The cloud was charged with sulphureous vapour, which was afterwards to burst in thunder. —
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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Nowadays, general anaesthesia is seldom administered via a mask and anaesthetic gas or vapour.
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This means a catastrophic engine failure could send a fragment into the wing and ignite the fuel vapour.
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Most of what is commonly called the sense of taste is in fact the sense of smell, whether applied to wine, or any food or drink, since by chewing we transform our food into liquid which gives off smellable vapour.
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And had it not been that they had very well antidoted their stomach, heart, and wine-pot, which is called the noddle, they had been altogether suffocated and choked with these detestable vapours.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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So saying, she sat down to her wheel, and seized, while she spun, her jet-black cutty pipe, from which she soon sent such clouds of vile mundungus vapour as must have cleared the premises of Lady Penelope, had she not been strong in purpose to share the expected confession of the invalid.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Heat vapour steamed the desert under the blazing sun.
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The battery-powered plastic devices contain liquid nicotine and produce vapour when smoked.
Times, Sunday Times
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The vapour barrier also served to protect the timber from rainfall during the time that the roof was being constructed.
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Rene Descartes notes that there are people "whose cerebella are so troubled and clouded by the violent vapours of black bile, that they ... imagine that they have an earthenware head or are nothing but pumpkins or are made of glass.
Warranted Christian Belief
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The battery-powered devices produce a vapour with a small amount if nicotine that can be inhaled, without the toxic elements of a cigarette.
Times, Sunday Times
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The worm was a coil that was immersed into cold water and it was there that the alcohol vapour condensed into liquid.
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Thus this box is a coppel in which the essences of all created things, the finest and the grossest, vapours and juices, the soft soothing oils, the bitternesses and tartnesses which at first seem grating, the flavour which evaporates in a momentary enjoyment, are put to the test.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
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Davy was the first person to experience intoxication after inhaling a gas or vapour.
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When water vapour condenses, it generates precipitation and heats the air in ways that influence downwind ecosystems, as described later.
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Immediately, a little stream of vapour came out of the end of the plastic tubing.
SUMMER OF SECRETS
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Reactive gas-filled vapour cells can be used in frequency standard devices, especially as a cavity in atomic clocks, where the time is delivered during the hyperstructure transition from the metal alkali atoms such as cesium or rubidium.
Innovations-report
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Her nakedness yielded to him, radiant, warm, odorous and lavish-limbed, enfolded him like a shining cloud, enfolded him like water with a liquid life; and like a cloud of vapour or like waters circumfluent in space the liquid letters of speech, symbols of the element of mystery, flowed forth over his brain.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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The use of sprays can lead to an indoor build-up of large quantities of carcinogenic vapours.
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He lay fifteen days earnestly expecting his hourly change; and in the last hour of his last day, as his body melted away, and vapoured into spirit, his soul having, I verily believe some revelation of the beatifical vision, he said, I were miserable if I might not die; and after those words, closed many periods of his faint breath by saying often, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
The Life of Dr. Donne. Paras. 100-143
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The salt called perchlorate takes vapour from the atmosphere at night.
The Sun
