verb
- Vaporize and then condense right back again.
- Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting.
- usage: "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated"
adjective
- Passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid.
- synonyms: sublimated
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