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Preferred term

evaporation

Definition

  • [ENVO] Evaporation is a form of vaporisation which occurs when a portion of the surface layer of a liquid in contact with a gaseous material, which is not saturated with the evaporating substance, vaporises. [database_cross_reference: Adapted from Wikipedia:Evaporation]

Broader concept

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Arabic

  • التبخر

Bulgarian

  • Изпарение

Croatian

  • ishlapljivanje

Czech

  • výpar

Danish

  • fordampning

Dutch

  • verdamping

Estonian

  • aurumine

Finnish

  • haihtuminen

French

  • évaporation

German

  • Evaporation

Greek

  • εξάτμιση

Hungarian

  • evaporáció

Italian

  • evaporazione

Latvian

  • iztvaicēšana; iztvaikošana

Lithuanian

  • garavimas

Norwegian

  • fordampning

Polish

  • parowanie

Portuguese

  • evaporação

Romanian

  • evaporare

Slovak

  • evaporácia

Slovenian

  • izhlapevanje, evaporacija

Spanish

  • evaporación

Swedish

  • avdunstning

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/10016

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