vaporization

/veɪpərəˈzeɪʃən/

When a liquid changes form into a gas, the process is called vaporization. You can watch vaporization when you boil a pot of water.

Vaporization happens in two ways: evaporation and boiling. Evaporation occurs when sunlight shines on water until it changes to vapor and rises into the air. Boiling is the rapid vaporization of a liquid—the steam that comes out of a boiling kettle is actually visible water vapor. Vaporization can be traced back to the Latin vaporem. "a warm exhalation" or "steam."

Definitions of vaporization

1. noun

   the process of becoming a vapor
   synonyms: evaporation, vapor, vaporisation, vapour

   types:

   boiling

   the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas

   clouding, clouding up

   the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky

   smoke, smoking

   a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion

   decoction mashing, decoction process

   (brewing) a process in which part of the mash is removed and boiled and then returned

   type of:

   phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change

   a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition
2. noun

   annihilation by vaporizing something
   synonyms: vaporisation

   type of:

   annihilation, obliteration

   destruction by annihilating something