adjective
- unable to be condensed; not capable of being converted from a gas to a liquid or solid state under normal conditions
Usage: technical; commonly used in chemistry and engineering contexts
Examples
- Helium is a noncondensable gas at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.
- The engineers had to account for noncondensable gases in the cooling system design.
- Nitrogen behaves as a noncondensable gas under most industrial conditions.
- The presence of noncondensable vapors reduced the efficiency of the condenser.
- Scientists studied how noncondensable substances affect phase transitions in the experiment.