Word: vaporous
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...chilled to minus 260°F, which converts it to a liquid and reduces its volume. An amount that would normally fill a beach ball can fit inside a Ping-Pong ball. When the liquid arrives at terminals in the U.S., it is slowly warmed up, returned to a vapor form and sent through pipelines...
...Mosquitoes detect exhaled carbon dioxide and follow this vapor trail until they reach whatever is breathing...
...nerve agent like VX, it is a toxic, odorless vapor that could be sprayed from the air or dispersed using artillery shells...
...KILLS Vapor inhalation or skin exposure causes painful, long-lasting blisters all over the body. But fewer than 1 out of 10 of those exposed dies...
...describe these organisms as hardy would be an understatement. The Dry Valleys are so cold (the mean annual temperature hovers around -5ºF) that glacier-fed streams run no more than six weeks a year, and so arid that what little snow falls turns to vapor almost overnight. Scientists recently reported, however, that sequestered in the 60 ft. of ice that covers one of the largest Dry Valleys lakes, Lake Vida, are dormant but still viable bacteria that have been sealed off from the outside world for some 3,000 years...