Vapor vs Fumes - What's the difference?
vapor | fumes |
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.
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, title= 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:
As nouns the difference between vapor and fumes
is that vapor is cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air while fumes is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between vapor and fumes
is that vapor is to become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor while fumes is third-person singular of fume.vapor
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Alternative forms
* vapour (Commonwealth English)Noun
(wikipedia vapor) (en noun)Philip J. Bushnell
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 vaporSee also
* dew point * get the vaporsVerb
(en verb)- 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.
