Vapour - Examples

Examples

  • Perfumes contain chemicals that vapourise at different temperatures and at different rate in scent accords known as notes.
  • Atmospheric water vapour is found near the earth's surface, and may condense into small liquid droplets and form meteorological phenomena such as fog, mist and haar.
  • Mercury-vapour lamps and sodium vapour lamps produce light from atoms in excited states.

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