The scientific meaning of evaporate

Answer 1

This means the process of turning a liquid into a gas.

Most liquids will turn into a gas at a temperature well below their boiling point - it just happens quite slowly.

e.g. If you leave a plate of water out over night the water will seemingly disappear (or evaporate), even though it has not been hot enough to boil.

Boiling is similar.

However it only happens at a specific temperature (100 degrees C for water) and at that point evaporation takes place extremely rapidly as the pressure inside the liquid has reached atmospheric pressure. That is why you see lots of bubbles when a liquid boils.

However often the two terms are used interchangeably.

e.g. in a science lesson you may talk about 'evaporating' some water with a Bunsen burner to see what was dissolved in it. In this case the correct term for this would be 'boiling the water until it has evaporated'.

Answer 2

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"a process in which liquids spontaneously convert into gaseous state that is called evaporation."

Answer 3

evaporation is where water changes stages and turns into a gas

Answer 4

water that goes in the air

Answer 5

condensation