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Evaporate comes from latin "ex", meaning out, and "vapor", meaning steam. The suffix "ate" is there to signify an action.

Evaporation works like this.

Water is heated to a temperature where it turns into a gas. This gas is then expelled out and up into the atmosphere.

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