Boiling vs. Evaporation

Boilingnoun

The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.

Boilingnoun

(uncountable) An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.

Boilingadjective

That boils or boil.

Boilingadjective

Of a thing: extremely hot or active.

Boilingadjective

Of a person: feeling uncomfortably hot.

Boilingadjective

Of the weather: very hot.

Boilingadverb

(of adjectives associated with heat) Extremely

Boilingadjective

Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.

Boilingnoun

The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.

Boilingnoun

Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.

Boilingnoun

the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas

Boilingnoun

cooking in a boiling liquid

Boilingadverb

extremely;

Boiling

Boiling is the rapid vaporization of a liquid, which occurs when a liquid is heated to its boiling point, the temperature at which the vapour pressure of the liquid is equal to the pressure exerted on the liquid by the surrounding atmosphere. At sea level the boiling point of water is 100 °C or 212 °F but at higher altitudes it drops to correspond with decreasing atmospheric pressures.

Evaporationnoun

The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.

Evaporationnoun

The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.

Evaporationnoun

(archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor.

Evaporationnoun

The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.

Evaporationnoun

The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.

Evaporationnoun

That which is evaporated; vapor.

Evaporationnoun

See Vaporization.

Evaporationnoun

the process of becoming a vapor

Evaporationnoun

the process of extracting moisture

Evaporationnoun

the process of turning from liquid into vapour

Evaporationnoun

the process of something abstract ceasing to exist

Evaporation

Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase. The surrounding gas must not be saturated with the evaporating substance.