vapour
IPA: vˈeɪpˈɔr
noun
- British standard spelling of vapor.
verb
- British standard spelling of vapor.
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Examples of "vapour" in Sentences
- The vapour is a central image because it suggests that
- Water vapour is indeed the 'most important' greenhouse gas.
- The bridge opposite the door was wet with vapour from the bath.
- The phenomenon becomes far clearer once the vapour is highly rarefied.
- Provided that the vapour is highly rarefied, the rotation in very strong fields between the lines of the doublet can rise to - 400°.
- The planet, HD 189733b, now known to have methane and water vapour is located 63 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula, the little fox.
- The refrigeration caused by the expansion brings the temperature to sink below the dew-point, and the vapour is condensed into small drops, which form together visible clouds.
- If this then led to more evaporation from the oceans, causing increased cloud cover, this could be a feedback, because clouds have a number of effects: they reflect more sunlight back into space (because they are whiter than the land and ocean surfaces they cover) and they trap more of the surface heat (because water vapour is a strong greenhouse gas).