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Molecular Destruction = Vaporization?

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I was wondering, does destruction on a molecular level equate to vaporizarion? This may not be the same but with how water turning into vapor principle how the molecules get excited that they escape as an gas form. And an explosion has heat based properies such as fire and leaves behind vapor/steam.
 
Yeah, vaporization is basically (dumbed down) the break up of matter down a to molecular level in which the resulting state is one there's no cohesion between atoms or molecules outside of immediate collisions, I.e a gaseous substance.

Granted, vaporization is a phase transition from liquid to gas, no solid to gas; the real term would be sublimation.

"The term vaporization has also been used in a colloquial or hyperbolic way to refer to the physical destruction of an object that is exposed to intense heat or explosive force, where the object is actually blasted into small pieces rather than literally converted to gaseous form. Examples of this usage include the "vaporization" of the uninhabited Marshall Island of Elugelab in the 1952 Ivy Mike thermonuclear test. Many other examples can be found throughout the various MythBusters episodes that have involved explosives, chief among them being Cement Mix-Up, where they "vaporized" a cement truck with ANFO."
 
Yeah, vaporization is basically (dumbed down) the break up of matter down a to molecular level in which the resulting state is one there's no cohesion between atoms or molecules outside of immediate collisions, I.e a gaseous substance.

Granted, vaporization is a phase transition from liquid to gas, no solid to gas; the real term would be sublimation.

"The term vaporization has also been used in a colloquial or hyperbolic way to refer to the physical destruction of an object that is exposed to intense heat or explosive force, where the object is actually blasted into small pieces rather than literally converted to gaseous form. Examples of this usage include the "vaporization" of the uninhabited Marshall Island of Elugelab in the 1952 Ivy Mike thermonuclear test. Many other examples can be found throughout the various MythBusters episodes that have involved explosives, chief among them being Cement Mix-Up, where they "vaporized" a cement truck with ANFO."
Okay, thanks, something I have wanted to have confirmed.
 
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