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the ghost a liquid becomes when it finally stops committing to anything.
means The gaseous state a liquid or solid takes when it warms up and drifts off as a fine, diffuse cloud — steam, mist, fume.
from From Latin 'vapor,' meaning steam or exhalation, which sailed into English through Old French. The same root breathes through 'evaporate' and 'vapid' — a word that started as 'flat, spiritless,' as if all the lively vapor had risen off and left only the dregs. In the 18th and 19th centuries the plural, 'the vapors,' became a fashionable diagnosis for fits of faintness or melancholy, the idea being that noxious fumes rose from the body to cloud the mind.
- clouds
- Floating water vapor that hasn't decided to fall yet
- pressure
- Every liquid evaporates, even ice, given enough patience
- vaporware
- Tech promised so hard it never actually shipped
- sweat trick
- Evaporating water cools you by stealing body heat
- invisible
- True steam is clear; the white mist is droplets
great smog of london — killed approximately 12,000 people in december 1952
steam engine — james watt's improvements in 1769 powered the industrial revolution
cloud seeding — china used it before 2008 beijing olympics to prevent rain