Sublimation vs. Evaporation — What's the Difference?

To be transformed directly from the solid to the gaseous state or from the gaseous to the solid state without becoming a liquid.

Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase. The surrounding gas must not be saturated with the evaporating substance.

(Chemistry) To cause (a solid or gas) to sublimate.

The process of turning from liquid into vapour

(Psychology) In psychoanalytic theory, to divert or modify (an instinctual impulse or drive) into an activity or interest of higher social value.

To convert or change into a vapor.

(Chemistry) A product of sublimation.

To draw off in the form of vapor.

(chemistry) The transition of a substance from the solid phase directly to the vapor state such that it does not pass through the intermediate liquid phase.

To draw moisture from, as by heating, leaving only the dry solid portion.

(psychology) The transformation of an impulse into something socially constructive.

To deposit (a metal) on a substrate by vacuum sublimation.

Elevation; exaltation; a making sublime.

To change into vapor.

The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.

To pass off in or as vapor.

The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.

To produce vapor.

That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process.

To disappear; vanish

(chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid

The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.

(psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable

The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.

(archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor.

The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.

The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.

That which is evaporated; vapor.

See Vaporization.

The process of becoming a vapor

The process of extracting moisture