Re: Missing term

[Larry Woolf <larry.woolf@GAT.COM>]

Just to amplify Mike's comment:

Physical vapor deposition (PVD) (sputtering and thermal evaporation) and
chemical vapor deposition (CVD) are common industrial processes involving
species going from the vapor phase to the solid phase.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edmiston, Mike
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 6:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Missing term
>
> I agree with Bob Cohen that deposition is the reverse of sublimation,
> except I have most often heard it as "vapor deposition."  I think it =
> is
> perfectly proper to use the word deposition by itself, but in my
> experience I have more often heard it with vapor tacked in front.