How to Use condensate in a Sentence

condensate

noun
  • If a train full of condensate derailed, what would pop up on the app?
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2018
  • With the gas-export project not built, ExxonMobil has produced the gas for its condensate, or light oil.
    Alex Demarban, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 July 2017
  • Its dual hose exhausts and drains all condensate, which allows the unit to perform at its peak.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Covid-19 put a damper on new brews made with the airport’s condensate, but the airport plans to get that program back on track post-pandemic.
    NBC News, 16 June 2021
  • In this case, the quantum gas is a perplexing state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The number of ultracold atoms in the resulting Bose-Einstein condensate was measured and fed back to the player as a score.
    IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2019
  • A small hole is cut through the wall to run the refrigerant lines, condensate drain, power, and control cables to and from the central outdoor unit.
    Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2017
  • Unlike the thick crude that gushed out of the Valdez, much of the light, gassy condensate from the Sanchi may have evaporated or burned immediately, Kwon said.
    Gerry Shih, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2018
  • In 2001, a group of physicists won the Nobel Prize for finally achieving that state, which is known as Bose-Einstein condensate.
    Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
  • After that, the researchers shine a very short burst of ultraviolet light through the condensate.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2018
  • In an electrical circuit, the electron condensate in a wire is like water flowing through a pipe.
    Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
  • The condensate is a cloud of rubidium atoms that has been cooled to nanokelvin temperatures.
    Dieynaba Young, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
  • At 3:53 a.m. the condensate and feed pump failed, shutting down the steam turbine in a building behind the reactor container.
    Washington Post, 30 May 2017
  • And the outside never condensates—another plus (because who wants to search for a coaster?).
    Sarah Felbin, Health, 3 Aug. 2023
  • It is believed to still be leaking condensate and other fuels.
    Steven Lee Myers and Javier C. HernÁndez, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Tankers haul nearly 17 million barrels of crude and condensate each day through the waterway, which at its narrowest point is just 21 miles wide.
    Grant Smith, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Peiris leads a team of physicists studying how to steady the condensate blend against collapse from unrelated effects.
    quantamagazine.org, 25 Jan. 2021
  • One of the essential steps in building the quantum computer along the lines described above is to create the coldest state of matter in the universe, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate.
    IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2019
  • However, the condensate oil readily evaporates or burns off in a fire, reducing the chance of a major spill.
    Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2018
  • In Iran, about 20 people have been killed since the turmoil broke out last week, though crude and condensate exports remain unaffected, Bloomberg tanker tracking shows.
    Grant Smith, Houston Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2018
  • However, the condensate oil the ship was carrying readily evaporates or burns off in a fire, reducing the chance of a major oil spill.
    Amir Vahdat, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The condensate is key to applications like quantum computing and atom lasers.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2020
  • If so, insights from a Bose-Einstein condensate, a quantum system that exists at close to absolute zero, may be valid.
    Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2014
  • Russia similarly exported most of its crude oil and other condensate exports to Europe that year, with just 1% going to the US.
    Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2022
  • When spilled, the condensate can produce a deep underwater plume damaging to marine life.
    Gerry Mullany, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • These cold atoms are trapped, and any less useful extra atoms are allowed to escape, leaving highly dense, near-absolute-zero atoms in condensate form.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2020
  • In the accounts published on Thursday, the KRG is seen to have provided crude and condensate worth $88 million to local refineries and other local consumers.
    Khalid Al Ansary, Bloomberg.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Here’s how their method works: As the power plant pumps up the volcanic water to run the turbines that provide heat and electricity to Reykjavik, the scientists capture the CO2 emitted from the plant’s steam and liquifies it into condensate.
    Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2019
  • Steinhauer’s replica, technically called a Bose-Einstein condensate, has the same property but for sound waves.
    Wired, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Plus, the hotel will launch a gray water program, collecting the HVAC condensate and recycling it to irrigate the property’s foliage.
    Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021

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