Word: vaporizer
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...crater is still a shallow, rimless saucer pressed down into the earth by the force of the explosion. In it may be seen a few twisted bits of metal and the reinforced concrete foundations of the tall steel tower that the bomb blew away as vapor...
...pier, and rained down upon the hissing waters. Shells shot hither & thither, exploding under the touch of the terrific heat and shooting their missiles at random. Some of the shrapnel shells fell even in Manhattan. On the pier arose a white glare as of a million mercury-vapor lights...
Seymour Hess, of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., reported to the meteorologists that Mars is a dry place indeed. There is so little water vapor in its atmosphere that if it all fell at once as rain, it would register less than a hundredth of an inch.* And the Martians (if any) are living in a rarefied atmosphere only one-twelfth as dense as the earth...
Each working day, Los Angeles oil refineries and other processing plants spew out a mixture of gaseous wastes containing about 800 tons of sulphur dioxide. As it rises into the air, the sulphur dioxide combines with water vapor and oxygen to form sulphuric acid. The minuscule droplets pick up more water and a variety of solid particles (e.g., soot, dust), until the City of the Angels wears, instead of a halo, a hat of dirty grey smog...
...instant it drove forward and downward. Then Chuck turned on the nitrogen pressure and fired the lox and alcohol in one of the rocket chambers. A spurt of white dots (visible shock waves) spurted out behind and grew into a long plumelike "contrail" (condensed water vapor...