| 单词 | vapour |
| 例句 | I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The reason it’s worth standing up for punctu-ation is not that it’s an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He floated on his back when the valise filled and sank; the river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapours for supper. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Three men with spraying machines buckled to their shoulders pumped thick clouds of soma vapour into the air. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he went out of the back door, closing it quietly behind him, and stood looking out through the quick white vapour of his breath. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I thought she was still staring at the boat, but then I saw her gaze was on the vapour trail of a plane in the far distance, climbing slowly into the sky. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They were in a country of swirling mists and ghostly vapours. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Signs and figures were carved above its wide arch too dim to read, and fear flowed from it like a grey vapour. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But the vapour of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapour at last that I saw two men looking at me. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The twilight deepened as great vapours rose in the East and crawled above them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The white vapour creeps painfully round before it ventures to steal away over the edge. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Before she could calm him down, the horse disappeared, leaving a vapour trail through the ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The land became drier and more barren; but mists and vapours lay behind them on the marshes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The vast vapours that arose in Mordor and went streaming westward passed low overhead, a great welter of cloud and smoke now lit again beneath with a sullen glow of red. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z One great coil of vapour went whirling up, twisting round and round Orthanc, until it looked like a tall peak of cloud, fiery underneath and moonlit above. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The white vapour of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought a thanksgiving now. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z At night plumes of vapour steamed from the vents, lit from beneath with red light, or blue, or venomous green. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The sun had disappeared above a film of vapour. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he went out of the back door, closing it quiedy behind him, and stood looking out through the quick white vapour of his breath. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do so want you to be good! Please, please be good and ...” Two minutes later the Voice and the soma vapour had produced their effect. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She shivered and stared around her at the swirling mists and ghostly vapours. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The water flowing beneath was silent, and it steamed, but the vapour that rose from it, curling and twisting about the bridge, was deadly cold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The moonlight suddenly failed, as a great black cloud sailed across the sky; and when the gaslight sprang up under Quincey’s match, we saw nothing but a faint vapour. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z So Heston set about making breakfast a fun meal for a select group of commuters by taking over the Orient Express and treating them to his variations of boiled egg, cereals and coffee vapours. TV review: Heston's Fantastical Food; Dara Ó Briain's Science Club 2012-11-06T22:00:02Z "Water exists in three forms on Earth: liquid, vapour and ice," says Zarnecki. Welcome to a new Eden ? two billion miles from Earth 2010-05-08T23:06:00Z The plot plays out as a prolonged attack of the vapours. Cannes 2017 – the best of week two 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Review | The surprising comfort of a new book about death 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z From the first line – "Another sheep, mangled and bled out, her innards not yet crusting and the vapours rising from her like a steamed pudding" – it is a tale that oozes, drips, throbs with menace. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld – review 2013-06-30T09:00:01Z Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images In winter the geothermal areas look all the more impressive, when their hot water produces clouds of vapour. The glory of Yellowstone national park in winter 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Often clunky, battery-powered devices which converted cartridges of nicotine solution into a breathable mist, the caustic nature of the vapour imposed a limit in practice on how much inexperienced users would inhale. Nicotine sickness: the latest vaping scare 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z My heart was rushing but feelings of shame curled around my ribcage like poisonous vapour. Let’s have an open relationship, my girlfriend said … 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z It now has a vapour seal fitted on it, to prevent the button from freezing over again, and I check it every morning. A black pudding saved my life 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z On the hilariously self-regarding Fotheringham, who earns his bread as a sub-editor of a spiritualist paper, Powell hangs the immortal tag: “The aura of journalism’s lower slopes hung round him like a vapour.” A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Modern armies, by contrast, “were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We would be a vapour, blowing where we listed.” The early years of the real Lawrence of Arabia 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z This all changed when Juul introduced their then groundbreaking pods of salted, flavoured nicotine, reducing the harshness of the vapour and making it possible to inhale far more, and for much longer. Nicotine sickness: the latest vaping scare 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z "It's hard to believe people did that every day. No wonder they were all getting attacks of the vapours every five minutes and fainting right, left and centre." Downton Abbey: The secrets of series five 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z I was still wrapped in the soothing vapours of the cognac, no clue where I was, but not particularly concerned: I’ll figure this out. My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z At its best it can be like painting with nothing, with vapour, with the body's secretions. Tate Britain's Watercolour: Awash with inspiration 2011-02-14T21:31:01Z The ladies are catered for too, with a swooning event suitable for any women who suffer from the vapours. This week's new events 2012-07-06T23:05:00Z I couldn't even talk the second day, so I told him to get me some Vicks vapour rub. Loleatta Holloway obituary 2011-03-24T18:17:38Z The ovary’s outermost layer, which contains the eggs, is then cut into strips, frozen and stored at about -170C using liquid nitrogen vapour. 'It gives you hope': the fight to save the fertility of children with cancer 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z "I got caught outside the limo," he recalls, faux-cigarette vapour trailing from his mouth. The Jacksons: 'People have tried to tear down our family name' 2013-02-21T18:57:00Z E-cigarettes work by heating liquid containing nicotine to produce vapour, which is then inhaled. The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z In simple terms, that is precisely what it is: an amorphous, hovering, swirling, surging vapour of droning sound underpinned by muffled techno beats. Hidden Treasures: Gas – Gas 2013-03-19T16:12:15Z He exhales a short, sweet burst of vapour and shrugs. Vaping is ever more popular, but is it a smoking cure or a new hazard? 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Nervously, Becky sings Drake's "River Man" solo, her voice like vapour. The Unthanks 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z Gone With the Smoke is already no more than a distant whiff of bubblegum-flavoured vapour. The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Bob Shambles incants vaguely, as if summoning the answer from magical vapours. Extract: Skippy Dies by Paul Murray 2010-08-06T08:56:00Z Watercolour, being transparent but visible, is made for the insubstantial: for painting water, reflection, vapour, sky, the hazy, diaphanous and remote. Awash with colour 2011-02-20T00:04:07Z It was completely moot whether I was allowed to vape in particular situations, because I was going to vape anyway – so I always looked furtive, like a person with a hip flask, except billowing vapour. Smoked out: why me and a million other people have given up nicotine in 2020 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z He said the industry was claiming e-cigarettes were solely a device to help people stop smoking, but the addition of flavours such as strawberry and bubblegum to the nicotine vapour suggested children were being targeted. Doctors urge WHO to rein in e-cigarettes market 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z E-cigarettes heat up a liquid – tasting of anything from bourbon to bubble gum or just tobacco, and which usually contains nicotine – into vapour, which is inhaled. India bans e-cigarettes as global vaping backlash grows 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z She smokes without hands, squeezing the vapour out of a corner of her mouth. NW by Zadie Smith – extract 2012-08-17T21:55:12Z The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. Adam Foulds salutes Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian first book award 2010-12-02T14:09:00Z Providing it's not a pea-souper this can lead to ethereal effects at dawn, whether it's the spectral shadows cast by a tree or a flock of wildfowl partly shrouded by pastel-tinted vapours. Northern exposures: how to take a perfect winter wildlife photograph 2010-12-02T10:52:00Z Both the spectral features of sulfur dioxide and water vapour are significantly diminished compared to what they would be in a cloudless scenario. James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor, sulfur dioxide and sand clouds in the atmosphere of a nearby exoplanet 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Instead of immediately boiling away, the liquid forms a vapour layer that insulates it from direct contact with the surface. New cooling ceramic can enhance energy efficiency for the construction sector and help combat global warming 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z "This way, we're making better use of the light -- we get the vapour for hydrogen production, and the rest is water vapour," said Pornrungroj. Solar-powered device produces clean water and clean fuel at the same time 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Canfield says that the Dias–Salamat collaboration has spread a “foul vapour” over the field, which “is scaring young researchers and funding agencies away.” Nature Retracts Controversial Room-Temperature Superconductor Study 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The events included both mainstream and conspiratorial explanations of the same thing, such as whether aeroplane contrails are water vapour, or harmful “chemtrails”. Morbid Curiosity Is Linked to Conspiracy Theories 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z High-altitude clouds partially obscure the water vapour and sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere. James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor, sulfur dioxide and sand clouds in the atmosphere of a nearby exoplanet 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z This vapour layer reduces the rate of heat transfer and makes liquid cooling on the hot surface ineffective, causing the liquid to levitate and skid across the surface. New cooling ceramic can enhance energy efficiency for the construction sector and help combat global warming 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z AI tools have been used to optimise flight paths to reduce the amount of contrails - vapour trails left across skies by aeroplanes. Google boss: AI too important not to get right 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Europa has an ocean below its icy surface, from which plumes of water vapour spew out into space. Why finding alien life in Universe is now 'only a matter of time' 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z But the way Chile tacklers struggled to pin down their diminutive target and the way Smith left them choking on his vapour trails brought back memories. Smith revels in England's child's play rout 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Once renewable energy is stored as hydrogen, to use it as electricity again it needs to be converted using fuel cells, which produce water vapour as a by-product of an oxygen-splitting reaction. Cheap and efficient catalyst could boost renewable energy storage 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Rainfall can increase or become more erratic with climate change, as a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapour – allowing more moisture to build up before clouds finally break. Climate Change made Libya's deadly rainfall up to 50 times more likely - study 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The e-cigarette vapour that is inhaled can still contain small amounts of chemicals that are found in cigarettes, including nicotine. How dangerous is vaping - and why the concern over young vapers? 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Disposable vapes, cheap plastic devices designed to give a few hundred puffs of nicotine vapour before being thrown away, are often discarded in bins and on roadsides. Five million vapes thrown away every week - research 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z But the e-cigarette vapour that is inhaled can still contain chemicals, including nicotine, which is highly addictive. Teenage vaping: ‘I’ll have puffs as I’m falling asleep’ 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Designed to deliver a few hundred puffs of nicotine-containing vapour and then be thrown away, disposable vapes have seen astonishing growth in recent years. Crystal Bar vape giant deletes TikTok after giveaway with no age verification 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z "It's almost like having a pool of petrol, it's that quick, that intense. It also produces a vapour cloud that can be explosive and toxic." E-bikes: 40% of fires from conversion kits - brigade says 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Other chemicals that are found in tobacco smoke feature in much lower levels in e-cigarette vapour. How dangerous is vaping - and why the concern over young vapers? 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Besides the remnants of Doksuri, warm and humid air-flows and water vapour brought by Typhoon Khanun slowly moving in the Western Pacific created the conditions for the heavy rains, according to Chinese meteorologists. Explainer: What caused the record rainfall in Beijing and northern China? 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z In my experiment only the temperature was changed, but the other crucial factor to consider is the amount of water vapour in the air - the humidity. Heatwave: How hot is too hot for the human body? 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z The eruption of an underwater volcano in Tonga in 2022 has also added to the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere, which heats the planet like carbon dioxide. Climate change: July set to be world's warmest month on record 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z They use a chemical process called "reverse hydrolysis" which combines hydrogen with oxygen and creates heat, water vapour and, crucially, electricity. Carbon-free flights promised 'within two years' 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z The disposable variety offers a few hundred puffs of nicotine-containing vapour, often with an added flavour of fruit or sweets, in bright plastic packaging – which are thrown away when empty. Disposable vapes: Councils call for total ban by 2024 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The liquid is heated and turned into a vapour and inhaled into the user's lungs. Why Australia decided to quit its vaping habit 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z Just 4.5 minutes’ worth of data revealed the enormous, very cold plume of water vapour. JWST Spots Biggest Water Plume Yet Spewing from a Moon of Saturn 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The vapour can still contain small amounts of chemicals, including nicotine. Vaping: New measures to crack down on illegal sale of e-cigarettes to teenagers 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z When a weapon made with a depleted uranium tip or core strikes a solid object, like the side of a tank, it goes straight through it and then erupts in a burning cloud of vapour. Ukraine war: UK defends sending uranium shells after Putin warning 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z A Jack Daniels building project is to be halted after a neighbour argued she was facing a plague of whiskey fungus caused by escaping alcohol vapours. Whiskey fungus lawsuit forces Jack Daniels to halt building project 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The 25-strong team at Diamond Materials manufactures synthetic diamond through a process called chemical vapour deposition. The tiny diamond sphere that could unlock clean power 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Penn is mostly seen smoking and drinking and at one point, a government official gives an interview through a curtain of e-cigarette vapour. Five key takeaways from the Berlin Film Festival 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Unlike coking coal, which results in carbon emissions, the by-product of the reaction in the DRI tower is water vapour. The race across Europe to build green steel plants 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The vapour settles as dust, which is poisonous and also weakly radioactive. Ukraine war: UK defends sending uranium shells after Putin warning 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z "It's not just that it smells, it's the fact it's chemical vapour which is a potential danger to health," he said. Ty Llwyd Quarry: Children playing near toxic waste, fear residents 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Driving some of the rain are weather phenomena called atmospheric rivers - water vapour evaporating from the ocean and carried along by the wind like a river in the sky. US storms: Extreme weather brings misery to California 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z One of the most well-known atmospheric rivers is the Pineapple Express, a ribbon of water vapour that begins in Hawaii, where warm conditions help evaporate ocean waters into the atmosphere. What are the atmospheric rivers contributing to severe California flooding? 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z As It Was is a vapour trail of a song, silvery and airborne, as Harry Styles searches for meaning amidst break-ups and loneliness and personal turmoil. From Rosalía to Beyoncé: 25 of the best songs released in 2022 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The resulting metal vapours can then be extracted under vacuum and condensed by cooling. E-Waste Could Become a ‘Gold Mine’ for Rare-Earth Elements 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z As Wayne tells us of their struggles, vapour billows from his mouth. Cost of living: The 'lucky' caravan couple facing a freezing future 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Ecuador's Geophysics Institute tweeted a photo taken from a drone of the plume of vapour rising from Cotopaxi's snow-capped peak. Cotopaxi: Plume of gas rises from Ecuador volcano 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Once in the air, winds swiftly carry along the vapour, which, if lifted by a front or passing over mountains, condenses and falls as rain or snow. What are the atmospheric rivers contributing to severe California flooding? 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z This pilot technology replaces coal with hydrogen, and releases only water vapour. How the Hydrogen Revolution Can Help Save the Planet—and How It Can’t 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Conventional GUV systems use mercury vapour lamps, which produce light by passing an electrical current through vapourized mercury, and are similar to conventional fluorescent bulbs. These UV Devices Could Keep Indoor Air Free of Viruses 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z "The vapour from this accelerant became so great that, when it was ignited, it caused an explosion followed by the fire which took hold of the building." Bedford flats explosion resident says belongings were stolen 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z It happens when the temperature falls to a point, known as the dew point, that water vapour in the air forms into water droplets. Mould at home: How dangerous is it and what can be done? 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Lower flow temperatures mean more hot water vapour condenses within the boiler as it operates, which retains heat. The DIY gadgets that could keep your energy bill down 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Experts have attributed the unseasonably wet weather to a narrow stream of water vapour, or an "atmospheric river", above the country. Torrential rain causes havoc in New Zealand, hundreds forced from homes 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Experts have attributed the unseasonably wet weather to a narrow stream of water vapour, or an ‘atmospheric river’, sitting above the country. Torrential rains lash New Zealand for 3rd day, hundreds evacuate homes 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z They are made up mostly of water and are called contrails or vapour trails, but a growing number of people falsely believe they are evidence of something sinister going on. Chemtrails: What's the truth behind the conspiracy theory? 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z If water vapour comes into contact with a surface in your home that's below the dew point, like an uninsulated external wall or a cold window, then water droplets will form. Mould at home: How dangerous is it and what can be done? 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The warmer it becomes, however, the more vapour there is in the atmosphere. Extreme weather: What is it and how is it connected to climate change? 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z At any given time, there is the equivalent of approximately 13,000 km3 of water in the air in the form of water vapour and water droplets in clouds. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Water vapour gathers around the particles and eventually falls as precipitation. Australia floods: Unfounded cloud seeding claims spread online 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Contrails are formed when water vapour and fine soot particulates from burning jet fuel freeze into ice crystals. Chemtrails: What's the truth behind the conspiracy theory? 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z But scientists note that warmer air can hold more water vapour before rain clouds eventually burst, meaning more rain eventually pours down. Rain-triggered floods in Bangladesh conjure climate warnings 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z But the e-cigarette vapour which is inhaled can still contain small amounts of chemicals, including nicotine, which could carry risks of their own. Vaping - is it a risk-free option? 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z It is not clear what the exact composition of the atmosphere was after Earth’s second experiment, but carbon dioxide, water vapour, and nitrogen were likely the three most abundant components. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Hydrogen can store vast amounts of energy, replace natural gas in industrial processes, and power fuel cells in trucks, trains, ships or planes that emit nothing but vapour of drinkable water. Could hydrogen ease Germany's reliance on Russian gas? 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z In higher humidity, they persist, and end up creating visible vapour trails over large areas of sky. Chemtrails: What's the truth behind the conspiracy theory? 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Since 2014, the observatory has made hundreds of flights above the water vapour in Earth’s atmosphere to get an unobscured view of celestial objects and to gather data at infrared wavelengths. Costly SOFIA Telescope Faces Termination after Years of Problems 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z It sent a plume of ash and vapour halfway to space and generated a tsunami that swept across the Pacific. NZ professor snorkels over Tonga volcano 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z The rising clouds are mostly composed of water vapour, but also include carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The air in the unventilated space was heavy with petrol vapour. Ukraine: Six weeks of devastation and defiance as world grapples with the crisis 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Those humidity differences explain why some aircraft are seen producing vapour trails while others do not. Chemtrails: What's the truth behind the conspiracy theory? 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z This process creates columns hundreds of miles long that carry water vapour from the tropics, creating an effect Neff described as "a fire hose of moisture." Thinning Antarctic ice shelf finally crumbles after heatwave 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z A faint humming noise emanates all around the complex, while water vapour rises slowly and steadily from the cooling towers. The 'green' row over the UK's largest renewable power plant 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z All magmas have varying proportions of elements such as hydrogen, carbon, and sulphur, which are converted into gases like water vapour, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulphide as the magma cools. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In a hydrogen engine, the main emission is harmless water vapour. Business Review of 2021: Climate change and Covid 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z It only emits water vapour and the company says it has the potential to reduce on-site diesel emissions by up to 80%. Miners experiment with hydrogen to power giant trucks 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Vaping involves heating a liquid that contains nicotine in what is called an e-cigarette and turning it into a vapour that users inhale. New Zealand's smoking ban overlooks worry about growing youth vaping 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z In recent years, vaping - smoking e-cigarettes which produce a vapour that also delivers nicotine - has become far more popular among younger generations than cigarettes. New Zealand to ban cigarettes for future generations 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Detecting gases: Water vapour quickly turns into clouds of liquid water droplets and is relatively easy to detect just by looking, but CO2 and SO2 are not as obvious. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Local authorities on Monday forced residents of three coastal towns to stay indoors as a third tongue of lava hit the sea sending thick clouds of vapour and smoke high into the sky. Lockdown lifted in Spain's La Palma, volcanic eruption keeps airport shut 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The explosion on the carrier, which had been converted from a merchant ship, within sight of the beach near Ardrossan, is thought to have been caused by a petrol leak with vapour subsequently igniting. The secrecy behind a wartime disaster at sea 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The liquid and vapour contain some potentially harmful chemicals also found in cigarette smoke, but at much lower levels. E-cigarettes could be available on NHS to tackle smoking rates 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z She thinks flight comfort could improve as flight paths would avoid some of the sky's water vapour areas - which both form contrails and cause bumpy turbulence. Contrails: How tweaking flight plans can help the climate 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z About two hours later it performed a reversing manoeuvre, releasing two glowing clouds of vapour. Atlas V: Rocket launch creates strange lights in UK sky 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z He said fuel vapours may have trigged a secondary blast. Afghanistan: US media cast doubt on Kabul drone strike 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Total atmospheric water vapour was well above average. Climate change: Europe's record heat in 2020 was 'concerning' 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z In the usual weather cycle, hot weather creates moisture and water vapour in the air, which turns into droplets to create rain. Extreme weather: How it is connected to climate change? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z E-cigs or vapes let users inhale nicotine in a vapour rather than smoke and do not burn tobacco or produce tar or carbon monoxide, unlike usual cigarettes. Free e-cigarettes for smokers in A&E trial 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z They react explosively inside the engines, generating super-heated water vapour from the exhaust. SLS: Crucial test for world's most powerful rocket 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Scientists are exploring whether future Covid-19 vaccines could be in the form of inhaled vapours, powders, tablets, oral drops or intranasal sprays, for which the only delivery requirements could be a mailing address. Scientists race to find 'warm' Covid vaccine to solve issue of cold storage 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z He told the Guardian that Sky Diamonds would use a process known as chemical vapour deposition to create the diamonds at his Gloucestershire facility. Ecotricity founder to grow diamonds 'made entirely from the sky' 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The warmer it becomes, however, the more vapour there is in the atmosphere, resulting in more droplets - and heavier rainfall, sometimes in a shorter space of time and over a smaller area. Extreme weather: How it is connected to climate change? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z An oceanographer and environmental engineer in Mauritius, Vassen Kauppaymuthoo, told the BBC that local residents were now "breathing heavy vapours of oil", and there was a "mixture of sadness and anger" over the spill. Wrecked Mauritius oil spill ship breaks in two 2020-08-16T04:00:00Z Singers and musicians are weighed to see if larger people emit more breath vapour. Is it safe to sing yet? 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Snapshots of childhood recollections flashed around her cortex: dusty fields, vapour trails hanging like cotton threads in a reddened sky. The first five minutes of ReBirth 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The organisation said the alcohol hand sanitiser is "becoming heated resulting in flammable vapours being released", which reach a "flashpoint" and ignite, setting fire to flammable components within the car. Wednesday UK's hottest day of the year so far 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z The concentration of particles in urban environments is high, which means that any clusters or vapour would be expected to be scavenged by existing particles before they form stable particles themselves. Airborne particles might grow fast in cities 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Galileo suggested, for example, that comets might be optical phenomena caused by the reflection of sunlight by vapours released from Earth. Galileo’s story is always relevant 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z The vapour trails that once hatched our bit of sky all the way from the Irish Sea to the Pennines are now as rare as woodpeckers. Lockdown diary: ‘War, famine, flood, fire – remember those happy days?' 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z The high compressibility of both vapours and supercritical fluids would dampen the magnitude of pressure changes in the authors’ model, making failure less probable. When it rains, lava pours 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z As he wrestled with a relentless fever, a doctor prescribed vapours of boiled eucalyptus and seaweed. 'Be careful': Spain's last 1918 flu survivor offers warning on coronavirus 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Using the Espresso spectrometer, the scientists detected a strong iron vapour signature at the evening frontier, or terminator, where the day on Wasp-76b transitions to night. The inferno planet where it 'rains metal' 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Only the western Amazon near the Andes mountains would remain lush — there, air currents are forced up over the mountains, causing water vapour to condense and fall as rain. When will the Amazon hit a tipping point? 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z "And when you heat it, the shell gets broken because of high vapour pressure inside." The centre dedicated to the science of cracks 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The odour of dying animals surrounds you like a vapour. Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Our only hope for anticipating these events is to track potential vapour and liquid pressure in hydrothermal systems and to learn from their long-term behaviour when they are at a super-critical state. Why New Zealand’s White Island Erupted Without Warning 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z “When we are hot, we sweat. The forest does this – pushing 20bn tonnes of water vapour into the atmosphere each day. It’s part of the cooling system of the world,” said Nobre. The Amazon: on the frontline of a global battle to tackle the climate crisis 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z E-cigarettes are promoted in the UK as a way to quit because they let people inhale nicotine in vapour rather than breathing in smoke. Vaping nearly killed me, says British teenager 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z That is no simple task when there are thousands of products available, and a culture of users modifying e-cigarettes and their contents to change characteristics such as flavour or amount of vapour produced. Scientists chase cause of mysterious vaping illness as death toll rises 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z "Coming out of the stack is nitrogen, which is also in the air, there's a little leftover oxygen, some water vapour and then carbon dioxide," says Mr Blinksbjerg. The incinerator and the ski slope tackling waste 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z And scientists are still struggling to identify all the chemicals in the vapour. Mysterious vaping deaths: Why US officials are focusing on flavour 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z His observations prompted him to posit that researching water vapour might lead to successful weather prediction. Making the planetary personal: the roots of climate science 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Some of this work is done using hBN grown by methods that produce lower-quality samples, such as depositing the crystal in a thin film from a chemical vapour, which doesn’t require high pressures. Meet the crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Having more water vapour between the TMT and the stars would make the quality of the telescope’s observations slightly worse than they would be at higher elevation. Astronomy impasse: What's next for the Thirty Meter Telescope? 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z As he completed his historic orbit in February 1962, he took gorgeous images of the blue sphere, its bright expanse dappled with white vapour, standing out amid the blackness. The greatest photos ever? Why the moon landing shots are artistic masterpieces 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z These analyses focused on the liquids that e-cigarettes heat and turn into a vapour that users breath in. Mysterious vaping deaths: Why US officials are focusing on flavour 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z They discovered that dropping dry ice into supercooled water vapour could produce precipitation. Making the planetary personal: the roots of climate science 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Her conclusions pinpointed the crucial role of carbon dioxide and water vapour as regulators of Earth’s temperature. Female climate science pioneer steps out of obscurity 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z The discrepancies are particularly dire for crystal nucleation from dilute media, such as solutions and vapours. Crystallization tracked atom by atom 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Users inhale the vapour produced, which contains nicotine - the addictive element in cigarettes. How safe are e-cigarettes? 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Water vapour in the atmosphere emits a faint signal at the 23.8-gigahertz frequency. Daily briefing: How to see quantum weirdness with our own eyes 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z He worked, too, on the heat-trapping capacity of water vapour and carbon dioxide, and surmised that variations in atmospheric levels would produce a “change of climate” — ideas that Swedish physicist Svante Arrhenius later advanced. Making the planetary personal: the roots of climate science 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Water vapour over the continental United States is shown in this false-colour satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Credit: Global 5G wireless networks threaten weather forecasts 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z He fell ill after inhaling vapour from Lasso, a now banned herbicide, in 2004. Monsanto liable for farmer’s sickness 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The better option is to grow them by depositing atoms from vapours in a vacuum chamber. How 2D semiconductors could extend Moore’s law 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z A 5G station transmitting at nearly the same frequency would send a false signal that would be indistinguishable from natural vapour, leading to less-accurate weather forecasts. Daily briefing: How to see quantum weirdness with our own eyes 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Franklin had opened up a window but Adams held the common view of the time that you could get ill from night vapours. Will Trump win his legal fight over the wall? 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Taken together, the new findings suggest that laboratory studies of SOA yields must be conducted using realistic mixtures of atmospheric vapours, rather than just using single compounds, as is widely done. Atmospheric reaction networks affecting climate are more complex than was thought 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z One promising candidate exploits vapours of alkali metals such as potassium, which allows conversion of almost all the energy used to excite the electrons, without heating problems. Dreaming of death rays: the search for laser weapons 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Osanna says suffocating volcanic ash or boiling vapours killed the horses. Archaeologists find remains of horses in ancient Pompeii stable 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z In 2011, for example, the Eastern Pacific Emitted Aerosol Cloud Experiment pumped smoke into the lower atmosphere to mimic pollution from ships, which can cause clouds to brighten by capturing more water vapour. First sun-dimming experiment will test a way to cool Earth 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Hydroxyl radicals form naturally in the atmosphere in a reaction involving ultraviolet rays, ozone and water vapour. Antarctic scientists begin hunt for sky’s ‘detergent’ 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Light from high peaks could be directly channelled into the craters, he says, where it would heat the ice and turn it into vapour. How to build a Moon base 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z By detecting the tiny fraction of light from the star that filters through the planet’s atmosphere, the astronomers were able to detect components in the atmosphere and show that these included iron vapour and titanium. Hottest of 'ultra-hot' planets is so hot its air contains vaporised metal 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Researchers found e-cigarette vapour disabled important immune cells in the lung and boosted inflammation. E-cigarettes 'more harmful than we think' 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Oil vapours are toxic and contaminate seafood, harming public health and the local economy. Human errors are behind most oil-tanker spills 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Warmer air contains more water vapour and stores more energy; the increasing temperatures can also change large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns. Droughts, heatwaves and floods: How to tell when climate change is to blame 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z And NASA’s Curiosity rover has measured water vapour in the planet’s atmosphere. There’s water on Mars! Signs of buried lake tantalize scientists 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z That vapour does not contain tar or carbon monoxide, but does include additives and flavourings. Is the vape shop boom about to end? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z They found vapour caused inflammation and impaired the activity of alveolar macrophages, cells that remove potentially damaging dust particles, bacteria and allergens. E-cigarettes 'more harmful than we think' 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The diamonds are made by a process called chemical vapour deposition. De Beers to sell diamonds 'grown' in Berkshire laboratory 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Underneath are ventilation, vapour control, flexible waterproofing and irrigation systems. New whisky distillery 'like nothing else' 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Mr Ameal remembers inhaling vapours from cooked seaweed and eucalyptus leaves. Pepe's story: How I survived Spanish flu 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z He arrived in Melbourne in January living on the vapours of hope rather than experience. Novak Djokovic faces uncertain future after struggling in year of pain | Kevin Mitchell 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z A234 agent comes in a form of a pasty liquid; the concentration of its vapour is too low to affect anyone. Reality Check: Russian TV's claims about Salisbury attack 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z A motion sensor triggers a nozzle that sprays a chemical vapour into the mask. Fact, fiction and the art of deception 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Nerve agents such as sarin are typically used in the form of a gas or vapour. What We Know about Novichok, the 'Newby' Nerve Agent Linked to Russia 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The concentration in the vapour at room temperature is lethal. Nerve Agents: What Are They and How Do They Work? 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z An internal fan draws air into an underground collection chamber where the vapour condenses, making use of the earth's cooler temperatures. Will Cape Town be the first city to run out of water? 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Vaporisers, including electronic cigarettes, heat liquids to create a vapour that is inhaled. Pot and vaping more popular than smoking 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Light alkane oxidation using catalysts prepared by chemical vapour impregnation: tuning alcohol selectivity through catalyst pre-treatment. Mild oxidation of methane to methanol or acetic acid on supported isolated rhodium catalysts 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The volatile organic compounds in urine, which rise quickly as vapour, are another potential source of biomarkers. Diagnostics: A flow of information 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Forster, “the secret casket of his genius contained a vapour rather than a jewel.” Joseph Conrad, the first novelist of globalisation 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The vapour seems to be welling up from an ocean beneath the moon’s icy shell. After exploring Saturn, Cassini faces a fiery end 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Gradually, water vapour from the air hydrolysed the polymer’s anhydride groups, causing decomposition of the film. Self-Destructing Circuits Mimic Mission: Impossible Tape 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z He says that warmer seas evaporate more quickly and that warmer air holds more water vapour. As flood waters rise, is urban sprawl as much to blame as climate change? 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z A table by the altar had all the accoutrements: pots of cannabis concentrate, a torch lighter to heat it up, and glass vessels known as rigs, through which they inhaled the vapour. I toke thee to be my wife: inside a cannabis wedding in California 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z But Ms Jasanoff states that “for Conrad, the vapour was the jewel.” Joseph Conrad, the first novelist of globalisation 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z They treated me like a Victorian lady with a case of the vapours. The masseuse who pulled my arm out - BBC News 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Armed with 90C vapour guns called Terminators, the group begins the laborious task of combing the street looking for small, black circles fastened to the ground. The black plague: Mexico City’s war on chewing gum 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Water increases in volume when it is turned into steam, so even a small amount can create a “vapour explosion”. What it’s like to be struck by lightning 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z "The liquid bursts into vapour within the pore," explains Mr Barak. Future energy: The technology allowing more oil extraction - BBC News 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z His work there included cleverly aligning atoms by colliding them with other aligned vapours, to measure the atoms' resonance energies. Hans Dehmelt (1922-2017) : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z It was recognised that some plants reacted to those vapours, and the research used modified bacteria that essentially glow in contact with the explosive vapour. Glowing bacteria offer hope for safe detection of 100m landmines 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Were it not for the blanket of water vapour that buffers the Earth, our planet would be too cold to inhabit. There’s another story to tell about climate change. And it starts with water | Judith D Schwartz 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z However, shoes are more likely to be torn or damaged on the inside, because that’s where the heat build-up and vapour explosion occurs. What it’s like to be struck by lightning 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z High-intensity sodium bulbs used less energy than the mercury vapour bulbs they replaced. 'LED street lights are disturbing my sleep' - BBC News 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Water vapour plays havoc with observations made at millimetre wavelengths. Edge of darkness: looking into the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Reporting the findings in the journal Nature Biotechnology, the researchers say their approach relies on tiny amounts of vapour given off by the explosives in the mines. Glowing bacteria offer hope for safe detection of 100m landmines 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The solar heat is dispersed and becomes latent heat, embodied in water vapour, to be condensed and released as rain. There’s another story to tell about climate change. And it starts with water | Judith D Schwartz 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z These blades send the air into an internal condensation chamber where, as the warm air cools, the vapour condenses on the sides of the chamber. Could these five innovations help solve the global water crisis? 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z American Tobacco said that the merger would also create “a world class pipeline of vapour and tobacco heating products,” such as e-cigarettes. The real reason Big Tobacco is getting even bigger 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z In addition to geodetic information, the device records meteorological data such as water vapour. Can Cuban science go global? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Then each bent over their dish, inhaled its delicate vapours, took the bird by its beak and sucked out the innards, including bones, through its rectum. Fit for office? A brief history of leaders' illnesses 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Consider transpiration, in which plants draw up water and release it as vapour. There’s another story to tell about climate change. And it starts with water | Judith D Schwartz 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z As radio waves reach the earth, they get distorted by vapour in the atmosphere. Alma telescope peers into space from Chile's mountains - BBC News 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z On the basis of the combined modelling results and experimental data that we report here, we suggest that low-volatility organic vapours are the key to particle growth at the initial sizes. The role of low-volatility organic compounds in initial particle growth in the atmosphere : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Here we present evidence for the formation of aerosol particles from highly oxidized biogenic vapours in the absence of sulfuric acid in a large chamber under atmospheric conditions. Ion-induced nucleation of pure biogenic particles : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z That leaves the vapour market in an awkward position. Snuffed out 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z It is a catch-all that captures the way his tracks seep out of the radio like glistening vapour and conveys the slippery drift of his voice back and forth between rapping and singing. How Drake became the all-pervading master of hyper-reality rap 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Complaints range from faulty batteries to poor taste—e-cigarettes deliver vapour with nicotine, but no tobacco. Smoke signals 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Instead of assuming an average reduction of the saturation vapour concentration with oxidation, we used this set of chemical structures to calculate the saturation vapour concentration with SIMPOL20. The role of low-volatility organic compounds in initial particle growth in the atmosphere : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Here we report atmospheric particle formation solely from biogenic vapours. Ion-induced nucleation of pure biogenic particles : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Some vapour devices deliver dangerous chemicals, including formaldehyde. Snuffed out 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z We were reminded today that life is but a vapour. Twins killed in after-hours bobsled crash at Calgary's Winter Olympic Park 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z It reports that the vapour created by iQOS contains just one-tenth as much “harmful or potentially harmful” chemicals as a standard cigarette. Smoke signals 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The condensation sink is also the fundamental equilibration timescale between the gas and particle phases when condensation is the main loss of vapours. The role of low-volatility organic compounds in initial particle growth in the atmosphere : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The loss rate of condensable vapours and particles onto the chamber walls is comparable to the ambient condensation sink of the pristine boundary layer. Ion-induced nucleation of pure biogenic particles : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The vapour industry is small—less than 0.1% of the tobacco market—but expanding fast. Snuffed out 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z They typically rely for manoeuvrability on heating an inert liquid and ejecting small jets of the resulting vapour, which is a poor substitute for the energetic burning of rocket fuel. Cubism 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z "The pest control industry are incorporating new tools, heat, vapour, encasement, there are a bunch of these non-chemical methods that definitely help." Bed bugs develop resistance to widely used insecticides - BBC News 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z For the collision between vapours and ultrafine particles, the reduced mass μi,p needs to be considered; vi,p is then the centre of mass velocity: The role of low-volatility organic compounds in initial particle growth in the atmosphere : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z It varies with temperature, chemical species, charge and vapour concentrations, and may even be absent when evaporation rates are highly suppressed, such as for sulfuric acid–dimethylamine clusters10, 37. Ion-induced nucleation of pure biogenic particles : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z E-cigarettes may help smokers give up tobacco; but the vapour market may well be run by firms keen to sell it. Snuffed out 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z This creates thrust more efficiently than ejecting heated vapour, but without the explosive chemical reactions of a conventional rocket. Cubism 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z When the tower has its final instrument package installed in 2016, it will watch the forest breathe by monitoring how carbon dioxide and water vapour concentrations rise and fall. Ecology’s $434,000,000 test 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Water vapour, carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere keep the planet warmer than it would otherwise be. The fragile framework 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Dry air with nitric acid vapour is flushed over the ionizer to generate ions. Ion-induced nucleation of pure biogenic particles : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Again and again, a red square appears on Phuc’s skin, the laser fires with a beep and a nurse aims a vacuum-like hose at the area to catch the vapour. Vietnam war's 'napalm girl' Kim Phuc has laser treatment to heal wounds 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Phase transition involves a change in the physical properties of matter —such as water becoming vapour or ice. Q&A: Boson beginnings : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The anthems are belted out by both sets of players, cold vapour forming around their mouths like comedy beards. Lithuania v England: Euro 2016 qualifier – as it happened 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Water vapour condenses around them, tiny droplets form and the fluffy billows of the sky emerge. Could the smell of the sea help cool a warming planet? - BBC News 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The transmission curves were determined in a series of calibration measurements in which various perfluorinated acid vapours of different m/z were passed into the instrument in sufficient amounts to saturate all the primary ions. Ion-induced nucleation of pure biogenic particles : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The vapour leaving the comet dislodges a tonne of dust every second. Rosetta captures images of jet-blasting comet 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “If you’re going to set off 24, this is a large volume and in a confined space it obviously found an ignition source and caused a vapour explosion.” Brisbane restaurant partially destroyed after 24 pest bombs explode 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The anthems are belted out by both sets of players, cold vapour forming around their mouths like comedy beards. Lithuania v England: Euro 2016 qualifier – as it happened 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The researchers dropped little plastic tubes containing cuttings from a cacao tree into wispy vapours wafting from a flask of liquid nitrogen. Smithsonian sets up frozen-plant repository 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Instead the vapour seeps silently into houses and sinks down into basements where residents are likely to be sheltering from conventional explosives. Syria: Assad regime is weaponising chlorine, US Congress to hear 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Pictures taken a few hours before the comet’s close encounter with the sun recorded one powerful outburst that flung a visible, bright, stream of dust and vapour several kilometres into space. Rosetta captures images of jet-blasting comet 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z It was later claimed the flames produced HF vapour and another chemical analogous to phosgene, A poison gas used in World War One. How 1970s deodorant is still doing harm - BBC News 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope detected water vapour above the south polar region of Europa in 2012, so the mission will also include instruments to try to verify the observations. NASA Kicks Off Mission To Find Life On Jupiter's Moon 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Every breath produced a cloud of vapour and the sense of entering an icy realm was overwhelming. Arctic mission monitors ice shift - BBC News 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z He acknowledged uncertainties over climate science, especially over how water vapour and clouds would react to warming. Vatican presses politicians on climate change - BBC News 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Electronic cigarettes mimic the effects of real ones, producing a vapour that is less harmful than cigarette smoke, but the vapour usually contains nicotine, the addictive substance in cigarettes. E-cigarettes: Many teenagers trying them, survey concludes 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z "We fully support innovation in tobacco products, including vapour products," said Smith. Special Report: When it comes to e-cigs, Big Tobacco is concerned for your health 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Much tropical rain is convective — clouds produced from rising vapour over forests generate rain downwind. Agriculture: Increase water harvesting in Africa 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The popping sound popcorn makes as it is heated is due to rapidly escaping pressurised water vapour, not the kernels cracking open or ricocheting inside the pan. 10 things we didn't know last week 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z E-cigarette vapour alone produced mild effects on the lungs, including inflammation and protein damage. E-cigarettes 'may harm the lungs' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z "Gas, which moves like a vapour, brings to mind ghosts, phantoms and other things associated with death," he says. How deadly was the poison gas of WW1? 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Two adverts for Must Have, which trades as VIP Electronic Cigarettes, showed a woman exhaling vapour - known as vaping - as a voiceover recommended "the great taste of VIP". Three e-cigarette TV adverts banned 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Others have fibres of silica, which could irritate users’ lungs, in the vapour. Vapour trail 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The rover found the Cumberland sample had around half the ratio of water vapour as today’s Martian atmosphere, suggesting that the planet was losing water after it formed. Mysterious Methane Spike Provides Tantalising Clue To Life On Mars 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z However, this study which looked at the effects of e-cigarette vapour on mice, says it still appeared to damage the lungs. E-cigarettes 'may harm the lungs' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z According to the wordsmiths, the verb means to "inhale and exhale the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device." Oxford Dictionaries Names 'Vape' 2014 Word of the Year 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z The definition of vape: to inhale and exhale the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device. Vape is Oxford Dictionaries' Word Of The Year 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z She places a VIP e-cigarette to her mouth and exhales a lung-full of vapour before the details of the product are given. Ad Breakdown: Sex and e-cigarettes 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z China’s then prime minister, Zhou Enlai, reportedly ate there in the 1950s; today, vapours rise from a pile of rubbish by its entrance. Kings no more 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z “Thank you, thank you,” we yelled, pedalling through the vapours. Summer's over but heatwave pushes southern California towards meltdown 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The dongle glows blue and emits, in a delicate flourish that resembles the vapour from an e-cigarette, the fragrance from whichever chemical cartridge has been loaded into it. The Digitising of Humanity is About to Take Another Huge Step Forward: Smell Tories are talking about David Cameron being forced to resign and Labour people are having fits of the vapours. Scottish referendum: this is the hardest campaign I have ever had to call 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z "The vapour contains nothing like the concentrations of carcinogens and toxins as cigarette smoke," he said. E-cigarette criticisms 'alarmist' 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Studies have shown that e-cigarette vapour includes various fine particulates, some of which are toxic; other research indicates that exposure levels are too low to be dangerous. Allow use of electronic cigarettes to assess risk 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z These included changes to the products cleaning staff use and the introduction of a fleet of deep-cleaning robots, which kill infections with hydrogen peroxide vapour. No police action in C. diff outbreak 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The air gaps between the Christmas Tree structures can be used to trap other vapours, changing the optical appearance of the surface accordingly. Butterfly wings inspire cosmetics and bomb detectors 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z But it still managed to sense water vapour coming away from the object. Rosetta edges towards Comet 67P 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Prof Robert West added that even though some toxins were present in vapour from e-cigarettes the concentrations were very low. E-cigarette criticisms 'alarmist' 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Designer Nick Hancock beat more than 300 other people in a competition in 2010 with his entry showing a Spitfire on top of a mast that resembles a vapour trail. £3m needed for new Spitfire memorial 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The glue vapour rose and lightly coated the ants. Secrets of ant rafts revealed 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Workers again noticed vapours around the tanks in May. A messy 25-year-long nuclear clean-up 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The letter says the devices - which deliver nicotine in a vapour - could be a "significant health innovation". Call to 'resist e-cigarette controls' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z “As clouds climb up a mountain slope, water vapour with the heavier oxygen isotope, oxygen-18, rains out first,” says Ding. Tibet mountainous long before Himalayas 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z Some praise e-cigarettes—which deliver a vapour with nicotine, but no tobacco—for helping traditional smokers to quit. Where there’s smoke 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z She told BBC Radio 4's The World at One programme that Australia, New Zealand and Japan dealt with the problem using vapour heat treatment and the EU should do the same. UK 'working to end' Indian mango ban 2014-04-28T13:57:01Z Then, in late March, two dozen workers fell ill because of chemical vapours near the tanks. A messy 25-year-long nuclear clean-up 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Users inhale a vapour from a heated liquid that contains a concentration of nicotine. Call to 'resist e-cigarette controls' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z E-cigarettes are plastic or metal tubes that use an electrical coil to heat a liquid nicotine solution, creating a vapour that users inhale. FDA seeks e-cigarette restrictions 2014-04-24T15:07:46Z Strange vapour formations sometimes occur in the sky. What was the mysterious black ring in Leamington Spa? 2014-04-15T13:03:42Z Scientists say they've found a mechanism by which these scented vapours turn into aerosols above boreal forests. Pine smell 'limits' climate change 2014-02-26T20:42:13Z Four people died in the outbreak, which was thought to be spread by vapour from one or more cooling towers. Legionnaires' outbreak report probed 2014-02-05T14:17:04Z “It’s not about aerosols or stratospheric water vapour; it’s about having had a decade of cooler temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific.” Climate change: The case of the missing heat 2014-01-15T18:21:02.345Z E-cigarettes turn nicotine and other chemicals into a vapour that is inhaled. E-cigarette sale restrictions call 2013-12-30T00:58:12Z And tiny amounts of mercury vapour are the light source in fluorescent bulbs - that's why they need to be disposed of very carefully. A beautiful but deadly liquid metal 2013-11-30T02:16:47Z "It's thought that the vapours being emitted from the vegetation in the pine forests are contributing roughly half of the aerosols over the forest," he said. Pine smell 'limits' climate change 2014-02-26T20:42:13Z It was thought to be spread in a vapour cloud. Legionnaires' outbreak report probed 2014-02-05T14:17:04Z He insisted that he had no idea how the explosion had been ignited and that he had not done anything to deliberately light the petrol vapour. Murder accused 'feared for children' 2013-11-25T13:10:33Z Let's say that there was magically a vapour, a mist, a pill, a fatal hypnotic stare. America's 'completely broken' execution system 2013-11-15T01:13:16Z There are traces of mercury in coal, so coal-fired power stations pump mercury vapour into the atmosphere. A beautiful but deadly liquid metal 2013-11-30T02:16:47Z "We've found the reasons how the vapours get converted into particles, so we are basically explaining around 50% of the aerosol particles." Pine smell 'limits' climate change 2014-02-26T20:42:13Z Iran may give foreign-policy wonks the vapours, but American voters feel they have heard a lot of cry-wolf warnings about weapons of mass destruction in recent years, so they are taking a break from wolf-hunting. Lexington: Barack, Bibi and Iran 2013-11-14T16:01:02Z The new age limit includes electronic vapour cigarettes. New York to raise cigarette sale age 2013-10-30T23:10:29Z However, the atmospheric data show considerable variability, probably resulting from variations in ternary vapour concentrations and particle coagulation sinks. Molecular understanding of sulphuric acid–amine particle nucleation in the atmosphere 2013-10-16T17:22:18.533Z One way is to use a device known as a retort, that collects the mercury vapour as it is boiled off. A beautiful but deadly liquid metal 2013-11-30T02:16:47Z One of the most significant but least understood sources of aerosols are the sweet-smelling vapours found in pine forests in North America, northern Europe and Russia. Pine smell 'limits' climate change 2014-02-26T20:42:13Z Sulphates, for example, grow from vapours into clusters of a few molecules and then into nanometre-sized particles. Climate science: Clouds of (slightly less) unknowing 2013-10-02T18:02:57Z The use of vapour flavourings, such as vanilla, could also be seen as an attempt to prolong use and appeal to younger consumers. Regulation stacks up for e-cigarettes 2013-09-25T17:20:24.587Z Nucleation of aerosol particles from trace atmospheric vapours is thought to provide up to half of global cloud condensation nuclei. Molecular understanding of sulphuric acid–amine particle nucleation in the atmosphere 2013-10-16T17:22:18.533Z It dramatically reduces how much vapour is released into the atmosphere, and means the miners can re-use the mercury, saving them money. A beautiful but deadly liquid metal 2013-11-30T02:16:47Z At its heart will be Europe's largest privately funded sculpture, designed to look like a jet's vapour trail. Sculpture takes shape at Heathrow 2013-09-21T03:14:20Z The devices, which are rapidly growing in popularity, produce a vapour containing nicotine. E-cigarettes 'as good' as patches 2013-09-08T02:55:44Z Sarin is a clear, colourless and tasteless liquid which quickly turns to vapour. Q&A: Sarin nerve agent 2013-09-02T09:07:32Z This suggests that nucleation in different regions of the boundary layer may be controlled by different ternary vapours. Molecular understanding of sulphuric acid–amine particle nucleation in the atmosphere 2013-10-16T17:22:18.533Z Fans took over when the club went into liquidation three years ago E-cigarettes turn nicotine and other chemicals into a vapour that is inhaled. Stadium named after E-cigarette 2013-08-21T13:54:20Z Another logistical hurdle, says Hill, is that the vaccine must be kept frozen in liquid nitrogen vapour phase. Zapped Malaria Parasite Raises Vaccine Hopes 2013-08-08T22:15:01.480Z The gas build-up in the basement rose from the soil and combined with the vapour of solvents used in maintenance. Mexico blast blamed on explosive mix 2013-08-03T01:00:41Z Levels of selected carcinogens and toxicants in vapour from electronic cigarettes. How safe are electronic cigarettes? Not everyone agrees. 2013-07-22T23:15:00.813Z Indeed, our measurements leave open the possibility that nucleation may also proceed with other atmospheric vapours, such as highly oxidized organic species of very low volatility. Molecular understanding of sulphuric acid–amine particle nucleation in the atmosphere 2013-10-16T17:22:18.533Z Electronic cigarettes turn nicotine into a vapour that can be inhaled Merthyr Town Football Club is to rename its ground the Cigg-e Stadium after its sponsor, an electronic cigarette firm. Stadium named after E-cigarette 2013-08-21T13:54:20Z "Whaling is like a vacation," he told me one afternoon as we sat in the crow's nest, scanning the sea for tell-tale puffs of vapour. Norway's proud whale hunters 2013-07-14T23:06:30Z Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Centre reported tremors and columns of ash and vapour at Popocatepetl on Friday. Volcano causes Mexico flight chaos 2013-07-06T04:43:49Z A group of friends sits around a table in a pub in south London, exchanging stories and putting the world to rights in a cloud of scented vapour. Are e-cigarettes being choked by regulation? 2013-07-05T23:12:03Z The Cement Florist opened a jar of hot yellow resin, honeyed vapours rising out of the glass. Mortar flowers 2013-06-12T17:50:53.917Z I saw vapour streaming off the right-hand engine and a colourless liquid streaming from the exposed pipes. Air safety officials deny claim that BA jet was close to catastrophe 2013-05-30T19:12:42Z Yet trying to address "culture" alone is similarly forlorn, like trying to catch a vapour in a butterfly net. Big banks are still gaming the state, but who's got the courage to say it? 2013-05-22T08:10:10Z It is a colourless, odourless liquid that easily evaporates as a vapour. Syria chemical weapons: Q&A 2013-04-26T14:03:31Z They inspect one another's vaporisers - which come in all manner of shapes and sizes - and sniff one another's vapour. Are e-cigarettes being choked by regulation? 2013-07-05T23:12:03Z According to the researchers, conventional street lamps - which use high-pressure sodium or mercury vapour - scatter up to 20% of their energy horizontally or vertically because it is difficult to control their beams. LED lamp aims to improve star views 2013-04-25T17:14:58Z The redesign means that in the event of a problem, vapours from the battery box would be expelled from the plane, Boeing said. Boeing starts costly repairs to Dreamliner batteries 2013-04-22T14:29:18Z The atmosphere appeared to be loaded with a thick vapour: the Sun was rarely visible, and only at short intervals appearing very obscurely behind a semitransparent substance.” Tambora Erupts in 1815 and Changes World History [Excerpt] 2013-03-01T18:45:00.280Z As for the workings of Declan Kidney's mind, it is probably safe to assume that the Ireland coach has not succumbed to an attack of the vapours. Brains not passion will decide Ireland's Six Nations game with England 2013-02-09T22:00:01Z When the liquid is presented to the hot wick it produces vapour which can be inhaled. Are e-cigarettes being choked by regulation? 2013-07-05T23:12:03Z Suddenly, white vapour gushes from the tank, engulfing the workers and killing them instantly. Alert over South Korea toxic leaks 2013-02-06T18:20:49.877Z “Most of them are unaware of the health hazards of mercury vapour and nobody wears a mask,” says Nicola Pirrone, director of the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research in Rome. Tough talk over mercury treaty 2013-01-09T18:21:25.907Z These substances generally cool by boiling — they absorb heat and the vapour carries it away. Computer engineering: Feeling the heat 2012-12-12T18:21:26.047Z Wilson was given the Nobel Prize in 1927 "for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour" - but essentially it was for his invention of the cloud chamber. The man who made clouds 2012-12-07T01:04:08Z Gases detected from the heating of this fine-grained material included water vapour, carbon dioxide, oxygen and sulphur dioxide. Rover's big lab up and running 2012-12-04T02:50:53Z In later years a wind from the east would carry noxious vapours from a nearby abattoir. Happy 150th to Notts County, a very decent football club 2012-11-26T16:34:10Z Months earlier, a team of nine physicists had taken a rarefied vapour of rubidium-87 atoms, cooled it down to very near absolute zero and used lasers to arrange the atoms into a tiny grid. Simulation: Quantum leaps 2012-11-14T18:21:16.017Z Another study will involve snow sampling to establish patterns of large-scale atmospheric transport of water vapour across the ice sheet by water isotope analyses. Viewpoint: The last great polar challenge 2012-10-17T12:47:48Z It has also become increasingly common at top restaurants as a method for instantly freezing food and drinks, or creating an impressive cloud of vapour or fog when exposed to air. Who What Why? How dangerous is liquid nitrogen? 2012-10-09T17:03:19Z The analysis shows that the Martian water vapour contains five times as much deuterium than that found in typical Earth water. Rover's big lab up and running 2012-12-04T02:50:53Z It has also become increasingly common at top restaurants as a method for instantly freezing food and drinks, or creating an impressive cloud of vapour. Who What Why? How dangerous is liquid nitrogen? 2012-10-08T15:44:14Z “As the temperature goes down, this vapour phase nicely settles down.” How to Boil Water without Bubbles 2012-09-13T21:45:05.317Z Shah said he continues to see modest improvement in 2013 in the market for metalorganic chemical vapour deposition equipment, which is used to manufacture LED lighting. Veeco: Deutsche Bank Cuts Rating After Stock's Big Run 2012-08-13T15:35:57Z If liquid nitrogen is added to a liquid such as an ice-cream mixture, it cools the liquid rapidly while it boils away and produces a cloud of vapour. Who What Why? How dangerous is liquid nitrogen? 2012-10-09T17:03:19Z The fire began after vapour ignited but the cause remained unclear. Chevron fire investigators wait for all-clear before refinery inspection 2012-08-09T20:05:59Z If liquid nitrogen is added to a liquid such as an ice cream mixture, it cools the liquid rapidly while it boils away and produces a cloud of vapour. Who What Why? How dangerous is liquid nitrogen? 2012-10-08T15:44:14Z The coated spheres, by contrast, kept their vapour layers as they cooled down, with no bubbling or explosive boiling. How to Boil Water without Bubbles 2012-09-13T21:45:05.317Z Last week, the refinery reported vapour leaks and a compressor failure to California pollution regulators, according to notices. Chevron's California Refinery Fire Contained, Not Out Yet 2012-08-07T08:59:45Z Instead, the researchers report today in Science1, about half of the storms that they studied injected vapour to altitudes of between 15 and 20 kilometres. Storms May Speed Ozone Loss Above the U.S. 2012-07-30T15:45:00.243Z The properties are unfit for human habitation - the neuro-toxic vapours are making the residents ill. Legal action over 'toxic homes' 2012-07-16T10:25:06Z A police spokesman said the candles ignited vapour around the woman, engulfing her in flames. Salon blaze burns birthday woman 2012-07-07T14:28:37Z The vapour layers around the water-loving spheres quickly collapsed, leading to explosive bubbling. How to Boil Water without Bubbles 2012-09-13T21:45:05.317Z Reports of "vapour" escaping from bag on the Megabus prompted police swoop However, some airlines have decided to ban them. What's the etiquette with electronic cigarettes? 2012-07-06T14:02:49Z Armed police stopped the vehicle in Staffordshire on Thursday morning after vapour from a passenger's fake cigarette was reported as suspicious. 'Calm' M6 coach driver praised 2012-07-06T11:22:15Z The alarm was raised when a passenger saw an individual, described as of Asian appearance, pouring what they believed was liquid into a bag which was emitting vapours, the police said. Two terror alerts as Olympics security goes into overdrive 2012-07-05T18:23:46Z Police said they received a "genuine report" of vapour escaping from a bag. Fake cigarette caused M6 alert 2012-07-05T15:22:48Z “Who thinks of getting a vapour without heating?” How to Boil Water without Bubbles 2012-09-13T21:45:05.317Z Option B is to try and extinguish the flame, which is a much smaller flame now, and then try and contain the vapour release. Thousands stranded by gas fire 2012-07-04T17:30:28Z Fire chief Ian Woods said the blast was most likely caused by a build-up of flammable vapours ignited by a spark. Vodka blast 'started by smoker' 2012-05-25T10:31:03Z The palace of crystal has melted in air, And the dyes of the rainbow no longer are there; The grottoes with vapour and clouds are o'ercast, The sunshine is darkness—the vision has past! Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z When a metal, especially brass, is seen in a furnace in a molten condition, the flames, where the oxygen of the atmosphere is uniting with the vapour of the metal, present the most resplendent tints. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z Yes, but what a world-compelling vapour is his that now winds in fantastic spirals over the romantic hills and valleys of the new Weimar and thence about the entire civilised globe! Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The altitude is too low to alter the climate, and there is plenty of water vapour already up there, says David Keith, a geoengineering specialist at the University of Calgary in Canada. Controversial research: Good science bad science 2012-04-25T17:20:31.727Z In the case of incandescent vapours, the exact correspondence of emission and absorption as regards wave-length of frequency of the light emitted and absorbed forms the foundation of the science of spectrum analysis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Thick with towns and hamlets studded, and with streams and vapours gray,5 Like a shield embossed with silver, round and vast the landscape lay. Poems on Travel 2012-04-23T02:00:31.163Z Others of the crew, who had hastily donned masks to protect themselves from the choking vapour, were busily engaged in hurling pyrene into the seat of the conflagration. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z The drains are badly made and left absolutely to themselves until, choked up, they are opened up for repairs, when the hidden compressed effluvia send their noxious vapours into the homes around. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Oh, what folly it was to offer an affront to the great God, who had such complete control over “fire and hail, snow and vapours, stormy wind fulfilling His word”! The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z Tyndall’s experiment on the great diathermancy of dry air agreed much better with meteorological phenomena, but he appears to have exaggerated the effect of aqueous vapour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The station was so cold that their breaths made vapour in the air. Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel 2012-04-07T02:00:33.037Z Before the evil-smelling vapour had dispersed the "Golden Hind," turning head to wind, was over the spot searching for possible survivors. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z The masses of warm vapour rising from the Pacific are hurled against the icy crowns of Glacier Peak, Mt. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z As it is we see, what is well known to be the case, that the temperature of equilibrium of a liquid with its vapour is raised by increase of pressure. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z If the absorption of aqueous vapour were really of this order of magnitude, it would exert a far greater effect in modifying climate than is actually observed to be the case. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z It was as though a breath of the wind of death had blown suddenly through the room, lifting the vapours of wine and tobacco-smoke, quenching the laughter and the candle flames. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Fanned by the rush of the airship, the black vapour was streaming in its wake like a fox's tail. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z These caves have been formed in some cases by chambers of steam or bubbles in the yet pasty rock which hardened enough to maintain their form upon the condensation of the vapour. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z The same conclusions would be applicable when the phases are liquid and vapour of the same substance, if there were any case in which v2 − v1 is negative. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z Radiation is observed to take place freely through the atmosphere at times when the proportion of aqueous vapour is such as would practically stop all radiation if Tyndall’s results were correct. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z He was not romantic enough to imagine that every face masked an interior physiognomy of beauty or strangeness, that every woman's small talk was like a vapour hanging over mysterious gulfs. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Blinded by the almost incessant glare, Fosterdyke and his companions could do little or nothing but hang on, trusting that the "Golden Hind" would steer herself through the opaque masses of vapour. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z The vapour formed at once into thick drops on the trees and was precipitated in turn on us. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z We know no sickness but that which carries us to our grave; we feel no vapours; we know no nerves. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Change of State.—Among the most important effects of heat is that of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid, or from liquid to vapour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z And there, in that sweeping, gesticulating piece of vapour—you see the one I mean—there's a Bernini. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z With their eyes still dazed by the vivid flashes the men in the navigation-room became aware that the vapour was growing lighter. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z The respite was momentary, and as the sun withdrew, the groups of men that had been seen about the Boer lines were quickly obscured in clouds of grosser vapour. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z Others regard him as a wind-hero, who disperses the pestilential vapours of the fens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z He made similar calculations for the vapour of alcohol, which differed slightly from the vapour of water. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z It was used as a vapour or steam bath, a hole in the side being cut both for air and as a door or opening for ingress or egress. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z "Crikey, but don't I smell just!" he muttered, when, after one breath of purer air, he sank back into the pool of arnica vapour. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z The heat haze lay upon it, simmering in an endless stretch of floating vapour. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z To these springs, which are warm and slightly sulphureous, and to the “Plutonium”—a hole reaching deep into the earth, from which issued a mephitic vapour—the place owed its celebrity and sanctity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Clapeyron gave the general expressions for the latent heat of a vapour, and for the latent heat of isothermal expansion of any substance, in terms of Carnot’s function, employing the notation of the calculus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z From the surrounding sea come cool and grateful clouds; from the heated interior come hot blasts, licking up life and absorbing the watery vapours which would otherwise fall as rain. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z She was first shut up in the Sudatorium of her own baths, and a blazing fire was lighted, that she might be destroyed by the hot vapours. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The heavy vapour from the shells still impregnated the air, and hanging loosely over the veldt were masses of grey-black and brown-yellow smoke clouds. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z This shows how large a proportion of the vapour is arrested and how it is that only by drifting through the deeper gorges can any moisture find its way to the Tibetan table-land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Apparatus for observing absorption of heat by gas and vapours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z A sulphurous vapour enveloped her in its hot and suffocating fumes. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z The so-called “telluric lines” seen in the solar spectrum, are due to water vapour in the earth’s atmosphere. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z The evening before there had been a heavy shower of rain, and now the vapour rose like steam, and the moisture dropped from the trees. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z The thickness of the vapour film depends mainly upon the temperature of the steel; but here another consideration claims attention. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z A brass tube AB, polished inside, and closed with plates of highly diathermanous rocksalt at either end, was fitted with stopcocks C and D for exhausting and admitting air or other gases or vapours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z But a few moments before, the sun, shorn of his beams by thick vapours belched forth from the crater above, rode lustreless aloft like a dim red ball. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z The existence of water vapour is clearly shown by photographs of the planet’s spectrum taken by Mr. Slipher at the Lowell Observatory in 1908. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z When in the present time disturbances abound, And bands of robbers are like gathering vapours found, We know that heaven means to raise a valiant band To rescue the oppressed and save our native land. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z Hence, the vapour on the underneath side is the thinnest, because it is attacked with colder water and with greater force, because of the motion of the steel in dipping. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z But they could not detect any absorption by water vapour at a pressure of 7 mm., though alcohol at the same pressure absorbed 3% and acetic acid 10%. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z More than this he had not time to observe; a terrible explosion shook the house to its foundation, and he became enveloped in a choking impenetrable vapour. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z Next came the Sun, who, breaking out from a thick watery cloud, drove away the cold vapours from the sky, and darted his warm sultry beams upon the head of the poor weather-beaten traveller. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z To Lady Betty's eye, and in the phrase of the day, she had the vapours; alas, she suffered with better reason that the fine ladies who had lately made them the fashion. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z While the liquid was collecting they gathered reeds from the border of the stream, and fashioned clumsy clay bottles as receptacles of the vapour. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z Later researches, especially those of S. P. Langley with the spectro-bolometer on the infra-red spectrum of sunlight, demonstrated the existence of marked absorption bands, some of which are due to water vapour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z As the tourmaline contains boron there must have been some permeation of vapours from the granite into the sediments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Do but imagine a score of your acquaintances round a table, each an adept in this way, and each filling the atmosphere with coronet after coronet of vapour thrown up from meerschaum or cheroot. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z Believing at last that I had sent for him in a fit of the vapours, he devoted himself to amusing me and abusing Bruhl--a very favourite pastime with him. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z My lady, when she saw that, flew out at me afresh, and threw first the vapours bottle and then her cane at me, which, breaking a piece of china, put her fairly beside herself. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z The energy of radiation per unit volume, and the radiation-pressure at any temperature, are functions of the temperature only, like the pressure of a saturated vapour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The guide takes a torch, kindles it to a bright flame, and plunges it into the vapour. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Space is joyous with the innumerable wreaths of bluish vapour; but the red slaughter and the accursed tumult of the sea-fight are not heard or seen. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z The wind was in the northeast, and a great cloud of vapour hung in the eye of an angry sunset. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z There is the same sort of relation between the soul and the mantic vapour as between the eye and light. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Heat must be added to melt a solid, or to vaporize a solid or a liquid, and conversely, heat must be subtracted to reverse the change, i.e. to condense a vapour or freeze a liquid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z From it there emerges a little vapour and a curious low sound, like that which a child will make with pouting lips. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z A sudden squall of wind and rain swept down upon the sea, and all was obscured in a whirling smoke of spray and vapour. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z For even the stars were invisible then through the curtain of vapour overhanging the coast. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Its constituent parts are not broken into by any atmospheric revolution; they continue the same, whether in the solid ice, the fluid state of a liquid, or the gaseous form of a vapour. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Dalton also investigated the laws of vapours, and of mixtures of gases and vapours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Thus, if a man entered, the whitish vapour would cling at first about his feet. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z The sun was setting into a bank of rosy vapour that promised a continuance of fine weather. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z Where the road wound down from the Szekler hills a light cloud of dust was visible in the morning vapour; it seemed to be coming from the direction of Szamosújvár. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z According to these notions, there existed a volatile principle that bore no specific name, but was diffused through every part of living bodies, more subtile than heat, air, or vapour. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z He found that condensible vapours approximately followed Boyle’s law when compressed, until the condensation pressure was reached, at which the vapour liquefied without further increase of pressure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Then a bar of cloud came and drew its wisps of vapour slowly across the sunset slope of the Campanella. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Certainly the fumes of wood alcohol have killed workmen that went down only once into a vat containing these fumes, and other alcohols in the form of vapour should have deleterious effects. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z This process, which is as yet imperfectly understood, is attended by the consumption of oxygen, the liberation of energy in the form of heat, and the exhalation of carbon dioxide and water vapour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Bonami and Ruysh, with a lighted candle, set fire to the vapour arising from the stomach of a woman whom they were opening. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The method of the indicator diagram has since proved of great utility in physics in studying the properties of gases and vapours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Similar arrestation of the functions of the roots may be brought about by removing the oxygen from the soil around the root-hairs, and replacing it by carbon-dioxide, or the vapour of chloroform. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z F�r� produced monsters in chickens by exposing eggs to the vapour of alcohol. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The oil which feeds the lamp of revolutionary genius is foul, and such noxious vapours rise with the flame as must needs check its brightness. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z At that time Burslem possessed twenty-two ovens, and Shaw says, that when these were at work, the vapours emanating from the salt were such as to produce a dense fog in the town. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z Much additional knowledge with regard to the nature of heat, and the properties of gases and vapours, was required before the problem could be attacked theoretically. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z In America orchard trees infested with insects or fungi have been covered one by one with light tents, and the vapours of prussic acid, burning sulphur, and other poisons allowed to act inside the tent. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z F�r�, as was said before, by injecting a few drops of alcohol beneath the shell of hens' eggs, or by exposing the eggs to the vapour of alcohol, could produce monsters almost invariably. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The surface of the water, when struck by these gusts, is so agitated, as to be covered with foam, which is taken up by them, and flies before their fury until dispersed in vapour. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z "Lord Dunmore," I said, "by what privilege do you assume to vapour and handle the hilt of your small-sword in Miss Warren's presence?" Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z In the case of radiation, as in the case of a vapour, the latent heat consists partly of internal energy of formation and partly of external work of expansion at constant pressure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The Spaniards of the 16th and 17th centuries knew humores in the same sense, and still employ the word as a name for caprices, whims and vapours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Neurasthenia, or nerve-weakness, "the vapours" of the old novelists and dramatists, is a very common malady, and it gives the clergyman trouble by the turmoil it causes in families, religious communities, in themselves, and elsewhere. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The road, straight, level, muddy where it was not metalled, metalled where it was not muddy, was lost in grey vapour to the front of us. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Twice came the rain, delicately perfumed showers shaking down through a million leaves, leaving frail trails of vapour errant through the trees, and powdered jewels on every leaf. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The articles on Condensation of Gases, Liquid Gases and Vaporization deal with the theory of the change of state from liquid to vapour, and with the important applications of liquid gases to other researches. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z By and by, as they watched the grey strips of vapour which had been so brilliant a little while ago, they began to change again. Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z Of course, it was well known that dew was formed by the precipitation of the vapour of the air upon a colder body. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z The mists, due to the great heat and excessive evaporation, and the noxious miasmata, especially of the southern region, were exaggerated into the noisome vapours that the “black and stinking” waters ever exhaled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z When I reached my rifle I leaned over the crag to look, but the river gorge remained choked with vapour, though here above all was bright gray dawn. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z It is probable that Tyndall’s experiments on aqueous vapour were effected by experimental errors of this character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Indeed geochemists find organic molecules in the vapour that escapes from the surface. Did life evolve in a `warm little pond'? 2012-02-16T22:15:00.257Z The vapour which rose from the ground during the formation of the dew accounts for the difference of weight. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z Though the domestic sky was cloudflecked, there was no specially black bank of vapour striding up the vault. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Thrice I tested the flint, pouring a little powder into the pan, and thrice the pan flashed, and the ball of vapour shot up to the ceiling. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Mr. Bingham obviated this evil by charging hydrate of lime with bromine vapour, which not only removed the trouble of condensation, but increased the sensitiveness of the prepared plate. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z The Fjort tribe do not bury their rheumatic patients until they are dead and all their debts paid, but they employ the vapour bath. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z After a time, when the air gets heated and charged with vapour, columns of air would begin to ascend in a disorderly fashion. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z Lord Clare watched the threatening vapour as it rolled, increasing hourly in volume, and, laughing, showed his gums. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z I watched the cloud growing; the sun died out through a golden smother from which plumes of vapour swept over the heavens, thickening till all the sky was covered with painted fleece. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Subsequently Mr. Goddard discovered that the vapour of bromine, added to that of iodine, imparted an extraordinary degree of sensitiveness to the prepared plate, and reduced the time of sitting from minutes to seconds. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z They generally try to cure this disease by giving the sufferers vapour baths. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z When, then, the north-east monsoon blows the morning mist up the valley, light wreaths of condensed vapour pass to the right of the Peak, and catch the shadows at sunrise. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z A vapour as of blood swam before the sight of Pharamond and drenched his brain. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Dim rosy fans, the trees As they flick to and fro, Seem driving greyish vapour Over the snow. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z He took an immediate interest in the wonderful discovery, and made an improvement in the application of bromine vapour, which entitled him to the gratitude of all Daguerreotypists. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z But would you from destruction turn, Nor ’mid sulphurous vapours burn, But each become a blessed spirit, And kingdom come with joy inherit. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z But everything was favourable for the observation—the cold air incumbent on the rising, warm, moist vapour from the soil fixing the dew-point, when the projecting blades seized the moisture greedily and formed dew. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z The ghosts faded into thin vapour--nightmare was shaken off--No-Kami felt ten years younger than yesterday. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Within the depths of greenish greyish smoke Were roars, Crackles and spheres of vapour, And then Huge disks of crimson shooting up, falling away. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z Wellgood grumbled about women's vapours, but in his caution asked no questions and showed no concern. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z A dank unhealthy vapour is emitted from these openings, proceeding, no doubt, from the carbonic acid gas they contain. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z In the case of sodium dust, the vapour is condensed from the air at a temperature of 30° above the dew-point. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z In the neighbourhood of Sandy Point, at an estate belonging to the Payne family, the earth also opened, and vomited forth from its secret depths fumes of sulphureous vapour. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z For now, in truth, to his eyes, this birthday, in the metamorphotic mirror of his superstitious imagination, and behind the magnifying magic vapour of his present joys, would burn forth like a red death-warrant.... Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z These fiery appearances, he said, were collections of vapour exhaled by the influence of the sun from earth or sea. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z The morning that succeeded that disastrous night was one of West Indian beauty; not a vapour was abroad; the sky was one deep, lovely blue, and the sea looked like fluid light. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Smoke is being consumed to a great extent; yet we find particles of sulphur remaining, which seize the warm vapour and form fogs dense enough to check all traffic. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z Though the night-shades are gone, yet a vapour dull Bedims the waves so beautiful; While a low and melancholy moan Mourns for the glory that hath flown. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z But as he came nearer, his pale bones grew redder, and vapours floated woolly round his haggard form. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z "I have no doubt," says I, "but what you are troubled with the vapours," and got a haughty glance of contempt for my pains. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z The air was too relaxing for her, and she was subject to constant attacks of the vapours that were as distressing to her household as they were to herself. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z If vapour rises from the ground for any length of time during dewy nights, the soil which gives off the vapour must lose weight. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z Amid the flame our lurid figures stand, Or, through the shrouding vapour dimly view'd, To fancy seem, in that strange solitude, Like the wild brethren of some lawless band. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z His pain increased as he approached the hills: the distant ruins were already visible, and by degrees grew more distinguishable; many summits rose defined and clear amid the blue vapour. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z This he with starry vapours spangles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-30T03:00:13.383Z The afternoon was also wearing through, and the vapours from the steaming swamps obscured the dingy heavens. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z When the cyclone is well formed, all the vapour is collected into the centre of the cyclone, and forms a white pillar extending from the cloth to the chimney. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z But in the sweet clearness of the morning such thoughts seemed to me no more than night vapours, and I sprang down the steps with a laugh. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z |
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