How to Use vapor pressure in a Sentence

vapor pressure

noun

• The vapor pressure deficit over a large area of the western U.S. that day was the highest value measured over the last 40 years, Fu said.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2021
• The vapor pressure varies by month, region, and octane.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 13 Oct. 2017
• Winter blend gasoline has a higher Reid vapor pressure (RVP) to make the engine start easier.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
• Previous research found that climate change is the main driver behind a sharp rise in vapor pressure deficit in the Western U.S. over the last several decades.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
• The vapor pressure deficit, a metric that indicates how intensely a fire can burn, is also at record high levels.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
• These blends are mandated to have lower vapor pressure to help minimize smog formation in the summer.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• If a liquid has a vapor pressure greater than atmospheric pressure, that liquid boils.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
• In addition, a phenomenon called vapor pressure deficit is increasing, which means that the warming atmosphere is wicking more water out of the snow, the land, trees, rivers, and streams.
  — Jim Robbins, Wired, 25 June 2022
• Of interest in the ethanol blending discussion, gasoline must meet a specific requirement called the Reid vapor pressure (RVP).
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 4 July 2021
• Fast-spreading wildfires become more likely as temperatures rise because a warmer atmosphere can draw more moisture from plants and soils, as measured by a metric called the vapor pressure deficit.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
• These pollutants can get into soil and water supplies, and TNT, due to its high vapor pressure, has a tendency to produce air pollutants that can harm workers melting down the material with steam.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 2 July 2018
• Still, Poland said, doctors can't fully explain the case decline because potential factors range from travel and human behavior to viral changes and vapor pressure.
  — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• McKinnon’s paper has Williams wondering now about how much the region’s current heat wave is being influenced by this heat-dryness dynamic and how many degrees the vapor pressure deficit has contributed.
  — Judy Fahys, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2021
• Rising summer and autumn temperatures, as well as increasing vapor pressure deficits and increasing precipitation whiplash in some parts of the West, have been repeatedly linked to climate change.
  — Daniel Swain, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024