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Condensation vs Melting - What's the difference?

condensation | melting |

As nouns the difference between condensation and melting

is that condensation is the act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed while melting is the process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.

As a verb melting is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective melting is

which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.

condensation

English

(wikipedia condensation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed
  • (physics) The conversion of a gas to a liquid; the condensate so formed
  • (chemistry) The reaction of two substances with the simultaneous loss of water or other small molecule

    • Derived terms

    * condensation trail

    Anagrams

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    melting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
  • Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
  • * 1714 , Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock , I.i:
    • What guards the purities of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?

    Noun

    (wikipedia melting) (en noun)
  • The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=The climate of Tibet: Pole-land
    • , date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80 , magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}