How to Use condensate in a Sentence

condensate

noun
  • If a train full of condensate derailed, what would pop up on the app?
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The area is the main point for Iran’s condensate exports.
    — Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • My boiler has a condensate trap.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026
  • Its dual hose exhausts and drains all condensate, which allows the unit to perform at its peak.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2018
  • It is believed to still be leaking condensate and other fuels.
    — Steven Lee Myers and Javier C. HernÁndez, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Without those condensate bridges, even near-boiling droplets continue to glide off.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In an electrical circuit, the electron condensate in a wire is like water flowing through a pipe.
    — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
  • The fruit reach in has an accumulation of condensate.
    — Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The condensate is a cloud of rubidium atoms that has been cooled to nanokelvin temperatures.
    — Dieynaba Young, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
  • After that, the researchers shine a very short burst of ultraviolet light through the condensate.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The photons that are emitted by the polariton condensate carry the spin signature of the spin state.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Aug. 2016
  • With the gas-export project not built, ExxonMobil has produced the gas for its condensate, or light oil.
    — Alex Demarban, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 July 2017
  • Peiris leads a team of physicists studying how to steady the condensate blend against collapse from unrelated effects.
    — quantamagazine.org, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The condensate is key to applications like quantum computing and atom lasers.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2020
  • In this case, the quantum gas is a perplexing state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Covid-19 put a damper on new brews made with the airport’s condensate, but the airport plans to get that program back on track post-pandemic.
    — NBC News, 16 June 2021
  • When spilled, the condensate can produce a deep underwater plume damaging to marine life.
    — Gerry Mullany, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • There was ice accumulation from condensate leak in direct contact with an open box of raw chicken inside the walk-in freezer.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 21 Nov. 2025
  • However, the condensate oil readily evaporates or burns off in a fire, reducing the chance of a major spill.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Frozen ice condensate was found directly on an uncovered liver in a storage container.
    — Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The pump’s components only cost $33 in contrast to the hundreds of dollars condensate line repairs can cost.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Dec. 2025
  • These cold atoms are trapped, and any less useful extra atoms are allowed to escape, leaving highly dense, near-absolute-zero atoms in condensate form.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2020
  • However, the condensate oil the ship was carrying readily evaporates or burns off in a fire, reducing the chance of a major oil spill.
    — Amir Vahdat, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The number of ultracold atoms in the resulting Bose-Einstein condensate was measured and fed back to the player as a score.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The evaporator refrigerant line in the walk-in cooler was dripping condensate.
    — Sacbee.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • If so, insights from a Bose-Einstein condensate, a quantum system that exists at close to absolute zero, may be valid.
    — Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2014
  • Tankers haul nearly 17 million barrels of crude and condensate each day through the waterway, which at its narrowest point is just 21 miles wide.
    — Grant Smith, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Water leaks often occur when condensate drain lines become clogged or when components inside the system are malfunctioning.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 29 June 2026
  • Unlike the thick crude that gushed out of the Valdez, much of the light, gassy condensate from the Sanchi may have evaporated or burned immediately, Kwon said.
    — Gerry Shih, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2018
  • In Iran, about 20 people have been killed since the turmoil broke out last week, though crude and condensate exports remain unaffected, Bloomberg tanker tracking shows.
    — Grant Smith, Houston Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2018

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