Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To become or make volatile.
- intransitive & transitive verb To evaporate or cause to evaporate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to exhale or evaporate; cause to pass off or be diffused in vapor or invisible effluvia.
- To become volatile; pass off or be diffused in the form of vapor.
- Also spelled
volatilise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to be or become
volatile - verb to
evaporate orsublime
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor
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Examples
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As you begin to chew, some scent molecules volatilize and travel up to the olfactory organ through a “back door” - that is up a passage at the back of the throat and to the nose.
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The length of time air masses remain at, or above, critical temperatures influences the extent to which an organic contaminant can volatilize and remain easily within the gas phase, or attached to airborne particles.
Potential impacts of indirect mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009
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This is because applying heat -- as with a heat gun or paint-softening heat plate -- can volatilize the lead in the paint, releasing it directly into the room's atmosphere.
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This is because applying heat -- as with a heat gun or paint-softening heat plate -- can volatilize the lead in the paint, releasing it directly into the room's atmosphere.
Archive 2007-05-01 Dan 2007
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It can also volatilize from fields or manure lagoons into the atmosphere and be redeposited where it can wash into waterways.
Hypoxia fact sheet 2009
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But at the same time, the envy that rose in them made them want to reject the city, vaporize it, volatilize it, erase it.
MALINCHE Laura Esquivel 2007
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You can also compare truth in this respect to certain chemical stuffs which in themselves are gaseous, but which for medicinal uses, as also for preservation or transmission, must be bound to a stable, solid base, because they would otherwise volatilize.
Religion 2004
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When the temperature of a liquid is raised to beyond the critical temperature without the liquid being allowed to volatilize, it is in fact converted continuously from the liquid to the gaseous form; and close to the critical temperature it is impossible to distinguish whether it is liquid or gas.
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Its char - acteristic action was to concoct materials, to bring them to fruition, to energize, sometimes to volatilize or dissolve.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas D. M. BALME 1968
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Moreover, precipitates are never wholly insoluble; and most substances will volatilize and lose some of their weight if heated to an excessive temperature.
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