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- noun The
volatile part of apetroleum fraction - noun The volatile parts of a planet's
atmosphere orcrust
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Examples
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Once the curry bubbles, add the pineapple pieces and cover and simmer for just 2 mins more and cover to let the volatiles from the spices flavor the gravy.
Archive 2009-01-01 Anjali 2009
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Once the curry bubbles, add the pineapple pieces and cover and simmer for just 2 mins more and cover to let the volatiles from the spices flavor the gravy.
Haryali Aur Malai Kofta Anjali 2009
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However, it appears that the moons of Mars may be captured asteroids and could be abundant in volatiles.
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Pumice is a type of extrusive volcanic rock, produced when lava with a very high content of water and gases (together these are called volatiles) is extruded (or thrown out of) a volcano.
Pumice 2008
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Both are abundant throughout the solar system, but both are also known as volatiles, which can exist only in certain conditions.
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So they freeze out and accumulate so-called volatiles - compounds that in a vacuum flash from ice to gas with only a tiny increase in temperature.
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So they freeze out and accumulate so-called volatiles - compounds that in a vacuum flash from ice to gas with only a tiny increase in temperature.
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Susan, those smells were the result of 'volatiles' off-gassing and the nanny state police have decided that they're *BAD* for you.
I get pissed off at TNR. Ann Althouse 2007
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These 'volatiles' are aromatic (strong smelling), and rapidly evaporate when warm.
TreeHugger 2010
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"volatiles" to the Earth-moon system - evidence that Earth's geological processes have largely erased from its own surface.
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