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Evaporation: Picture the Word

Can a long science word give you a clue instead of making you memorise it? Look at a glass of water in a room. Some water at the surface slowly becomes...

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Evaporation comes from the Latin word evaporare. "E" or "ex" means out. "Vapor" means vapour. "Are" just means to do or to become. So evaporare means: vapour goes out. [on-screen text: e + vapor = vapour going OUT] Water sitting in a glass. Heat comes. Vapour goes out into the air. That is evaporation. No memorising needed. Here is one more for your child. Export. "Ex" is out, "port" is carry. Carry out. Evaporate. Out plus vapour. Vapour goes out. [on-screen text: Break the word, not your head]

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Can a long science word give you a clue instead of making you memorise it? Look at a glass of water in a room. Some water at the surface slowly becomes vapour and escapes into the air, while water remains in the glass. Heat makes this faster. Now try the word evaporare. Think of "e," or "ex," as out; "vapor" means vapour; and "-are" is a simple clue for doing or becoming. Put them together: vapour going out. That is evaporation. The word has become a picture: water leaving the glass as vapour. Here's the same trick in export. "Ex" means out, and "port" means carry-export means carry out. You don't need the word clue to explain every detail of the science; it simply helps you remember. Yes-vapour going out from the glass is the clue. Picture evaporation instead of memorising it.