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
Ivy Mike
Ivy Mike
Vaporization