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Vapor vs Density - What's the difference?

vapor | density |

As nouns the difference between vapor and density

is that vapor is cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air while density is (physics) a measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.

As a verb vapor

is to become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.

vapor

English

Alternative forms

* vapour (Commonwealth English)

Noun

(wikipedia vapor) (en noun)
  • Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
  • The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
    • , title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance , passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}

    Derived terms

    * vaporescence * vaporescent * vapor pressure * vapour trail * water vapor

    See also

    * dew point * get the vapors

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
  • To turn into vapor.
  • To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2005, p. 172:
    • He vapoured , and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    density

    English

    (wikipedia density)

    Noun

    (densities)
  • (physics) A measure of the amount of matter contained by a given volume.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
    • , title= Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily? , volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.}}
  • (senseid)The ratio of one quantity to that of another quantity.
  • (senseid)The probability that an event will occur, as a function of some observed variable.

    • Derived terms

    * charge density * energy density * electron density * freight density

    Anagrams

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