How can we distinguish "vapourise" from "evaporate"?

[Nessie]

1/ The sun ... sea water and we get salt

a. vapourise
b. evaporate
c. burns
d. b and c are correct

=> what should we choose and why? how can we distinguish "vapourise" from "evaporate"?

2/ what's the difference between "process" and "procedure"?
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[Mister Micawber]

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'Evaporate' is generally used of natural and scientific processes and processes that are slower; 'vaporize' tends to be used of more dynamic processes and in science fiction stories.

A process tends to be more organic or holistic, while a procedure is normally a man-conceived series of tactical steps.
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[Nessie]

Excuse me, but could you please be more specific about it?
and if possible, please give me some examples so I can understand their usage clearly
Many thanks
Nessie
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[Yankee]

Hi Nessie

I would suggest that you bookmark the British National Corpus (BNC) site:
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

In the small box next to the words Look up: you can type in a word or phrase you're interested in, then hit the 'enter key' on your keyboard, and the BNC will deliver samples of (British) usage in sentences. These are the results I got for the word 'evaporated', for example:

http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/saraWeb?qy=evaporated
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[Nessie]

Thank you so much for the lovely site and the useful tip, dear Amy :)
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