Surprisingly, they found that under the same conditions, the sublimation of a frozen ice droplet happens just as quickly as the evaporation of the same drop when it is composed of liquid water.

Freeze-drying or lyophilization is a dehydration technique based on the sublimation of water in a product (1, 2). This means that the product’s water content transitions from a solid to a ...

and a gas can become a liquid (water vapor in steam condensing into water droplets). Sublimation is a phase transition that occurs when a solid changes into a gas — or, as chemists say, when a solid ...

The water is likely erupting from icy volcanoes or sublimation of ice into clouds of vapor. "This is the first clear-cut detection of water on Ceres and in the asteroid belt in general," said ...

While transpiration and soil moisture levels may be some of the other culprits responsible for water loss, one of the largest unknowns is sublimation, said Ian Billick, the executive director of RMBL.