vaporableadj.
/ˈveɪpərəb(ə)l/ 1. Capable of being converted into vapour.
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the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adjective] > connected with or producing vaporization > able to be vaporized
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xi. iv Heete of henen..drawiþ it silfe to fulle sotellich vaporable parties of water and of erþe.
1555 R. Eden tr. V. Biringucci Pyrotechnia in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 328 Eyther it is not of vaporable nature, or to be of smaule quantitie.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 614 The first Beings of Embrions of mineral salts are nothing but vapours, or juices not concreted, totally vaporable.
1682 Philos. Coll. (Royal Soc.) No. 4. 89 By reason of the fumes Lead usually emits, being a quick vaporable Metal.
1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos xii. 355 There would be no deposition from atmosphere if the water had not first been carried up by evaporation; and the vaporable fluid is obtained from the moistened soil.
1893 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Jan. 3/3 The vaporable parts ascending to the clear ether of heaven.
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the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adjective] > connected with or producing vaporization > able to be vaporized > able to make substance into vapour
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xix. xi White comeþ of vapoureable aier & watry þat is in þe membres..for white comeþ of hote aier & vaporable bestes beþ white vnder þe wombe.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxii. 90 The nature is mare vaporable and of better degestioun to corrump and bray the metis.
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