Also vapour-. [f. next + -ATION. Cf. F. vaporisation.] The action or process of converting, or of being converted, into vapor.
α. 1799. Monthly Rev., XXX. 569. The metal becomes oxydated during the vaporization of the sulphur.
1807. Davy, in Phil. Trans., XCVIII. 12. It combines with oxygene … without flame at all temperatures that I have tried below that of its vaporization.
1863. Tyndall, Heat, xii. 442. The sun by the act of vaporisation lifts mechanically all the moisture of our air.
1878. Hamilton, Nerv. Dis., 38. The bichloride was necessarily discontinued, and mercurial vaporization substituted.
β. 1826. Encycl. Metrop. (1845), IV. 246/2. Evaporation and true Vapourisation of fluids at their boiling point.
1839. R. S. Robinson, Naut. Steam Eng., 13. It is one of the most curious and important phenomena attending vapourization.
1854. Ronalds & Richardson, Chem. Technol. (ed. 2), I. 253. Application of Fuel to Vapourization.
