What is "vaporizes"

Usage examples of "vaporizes".

If the exposed ice vaporizes, we’re going to be smack in front of a hurricane.

I cut through the ice, to the water underneath, a smooth shhhiffffzzz, as the laser hits water and vaporizes it.

The glowing pod-like structure is freed from the ice, but the explorers have only a few minutes to examine the material from which it is made—a thin metal alloy unknown to man—before it vaporizes, leaving a smell of almonds, or patchouli, or burnt sugar, or sulphur, or cyanide.