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- Instance of
- phase change
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- uses
- gas
- has effect
- solid
- opposite of
- sublimation
- Commons category
- Deposition
- studied by
- thermodynamics
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
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Water vapor from humid winter air deposits directly into a solid, crystalline frost pattern on a window, without ever being liquid in the process.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “deposition” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.