vapour

• “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).”

  2010 January | Serendipity

• “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.”

  Methane in space

• “Water vapour is indeed the 'most important' greenhouse gas.”

  Comments Nixed by Uncommon Descent

• “The vapour is a central image because it suggests that”

  The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology

• “The phenomenon becomes far clearer once the vapour is highly rarefied.”

  Pieter Zeeman - Nobel Lecture

• “Provided that the vapour is highly rarefied, the rotation in very strong fields between the lines of the doublet can rise to - 400°.”

  Pieter Zeeman - Nobel Lecture

• “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.”

  Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 - Presentation Speech

• “The bridge opposite the door was wet with vapour from the bath.”

  Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

• “On our left stretched the broad expanse of Lake Michigan, dotted far and wide with the white wings of swiftly sailing schooners and the gracefully curling columns of gauzy vapour from the busy little tug-boats.”

  A Run by Rail from Washington to St. Louis

• “When the bread is in, the oven door should be stopped quite close; but over the door is a small opening called the stopper, which should be opened when the bread has been in a little time, in order that the vapour from the bread may escape.”

  The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally

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