Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
EVAPORATION
dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation
(noun) the process of extracting moisture
vaporization, vaporisation, vapor, vapour, evaporation
(noun) the process of becoming a vapor
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
evaporation (countable and uncountable, plural evaporations)
The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
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.
Source: Wiktionary
E*vap`o*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. evaporatio: cf. F. évaporation.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. That which is evaporated; vapor.
4. (Steam Engine)
Definition: See Vaporization.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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