Vapors
[veipəz]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Hypochondriasis, spleen, melancholy, dejection, blues, depression of spirits, blue devils.
Editor: Vito
Examples
- In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1824 Bussy condensed sulphurous acid vapors to liquid form. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Therefore these vapours of the sun which were rendered in black lines were so produced by crossing terrestrial vapors of the same nature. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At this moment, the barricade fell down with a crash, amid a sudden shower of sparks and rolling vapors. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They are applied either by immersion, coating, injecting, vapors, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The rain desce nds on the earth; streams and rivers bear it to the sea; the aqueous vapors, drawn from the sea, supply the c louds, and the circuit is complete. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Until quite recently the physicist divided gaseous matter into condensable vapors and permanent vapors. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The vapors of the volcano! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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