For hard-to-reach spots, the vehicle's ChemCam uses a laser to vaporize thin layers of rock.

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Besides developing the migraine drug, he aims to find larger pharma firms eager to vaporize their patented compounds.

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Catheters can contain tools to vaporize or "ablate" bits of heart tissue that cause abnormal signals that control the heartbeat.

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After an asteroid passed close to Earth last week, scientists in California have proposed launching solar-powered lasers to vaporize incoming asteroids.

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Hitting the circular enemies will cause them to vaporize or perform other functions like opening up a black hole, depending on their color.

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Remember that winter gasoline will pressure up as the weather heats up, and the contained butane will start to vaporize out of the mix.

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"We have water, " said Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, the ovens that will cook the sample and measure the temperatures needed to vaporize the components.

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By augmenting the drug's surface area, Rabinowitz had increased its exposure to air, allowing it to quickly escape the heat and vaporize without burning.

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"When you send a drone to kill a terrorist, you not only vaporize the terrorist, you vaporize all the intelligence in his brain and so you might as well be setting file cabinets in the CIA on fire, " Thiessen says.

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