He was the first to demonstrate in public the refrigeration effects of evaporative cooling, a phenomenon he wrote of in "Of the Cold Produced by Evaporating Fluids and of Some Other Means of Producing Cold" (Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary, vol. 2 [1756]).
The notion of journalism as a check on the irresponsible, corrupt or unfettered exercise of power is evaporating.
Nuance is evaporating from everyday usage, burned off by capital and apathy.
That fear appears to be evaporating.
But a couple of unusual cases are, as it were, illuminating the question.Two known exoplanets orbit their stars so closely that their rocky surfaces are evaporating.
Mr Brown inherits what is, in electoral terms, the most successful Labour administration in history, but with the distinction between the parties blurred, and faith in politicians of all sorts fast evaporating.
In the years leading up to the currency's birth, investors came to realise that the risk of devaluation was evaporating.
Dr Fenn and Dr Tanaka have won their awards for improvements to it.Mass spectrometry works by evaporating molecules, giving them an electric charge, and then applying an electric field to them and accelerating them through a vacuum chamber to a detector.
It is nothing like the Pirates, another protest party that briefly surged in recent years (mainly on geeky issues such as online copyright) before evaporating again in chaos and disinterest.
But its support is evaporating, and analysts say there is a gap in the political market for a centrist pro-business party committed to democratic norms.
With commodity prices falling sharply (the price of a barrel of crude was down to $88 on October 8th) and economies suffering, inflation risks are evaporating in the rich world.
