Evaporation close evaporationThe process in which a liquid changes state and turns into a gas. is used to separate a soluble solid from a liquid. For example, copper sulfate is soluble in water ...

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Carburetion The earliest way to create an ignitable fuel-air mixture was by evaporation. The engine’s intake air was passed through layers of fuel-soaked cloth on its way to the cylinder.

The chemical industry could dramatically cut its energy consumption by using machine learning to guide chemical purification ...