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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
volatilize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective converted into a gas or vapor
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Examples
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During atmospheric transport, washout and air – surface exchange remove some of the contaminant to the surface where it may become permanently sequestered or re-volatilized as a result of, for example, seasonal heating cycles, eventually arriving in the Arctic via a number of "hops" [20].
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In order to burn, the fuel has to be volatilized – either heated until it forms a vapor, or sprayed into the air in a mist.
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“Livestock are the number one source of volatilized ammonia in the nation,” Sneeringer says.
The CAFO stench is killing babies while the USDA laughs at farmers 2009
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It warned that these men suffered "by inhaling the volatilized particles given out in cutting and quarrying stone; and if they continue persistently at this kind of work, they fall victims to sundry diseases of the lungs, before they have passed the maturity of life."
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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The cloud was more pronounced over the first month or two as fires volatilized toxins, and later, as the fires gradually dissipated, became less of a factor.
Catch-all PTSD DiagnosisMay Again Shortchange 9-11 Responders 2007
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Alternatively, and quite obviously, this finding could just as easily suggest that those who worked on or close to 9-11 were exposed to the toxic cloud of volatilized gases, containing such known neuro - and immunotoxins as PCBs, mercury and lead, in a gaseous form that could easily enter the body in a myriad of ways.
Catch-all PTSD DiagnosisMay Again Shortchange 9-11 Responders 2007
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Some have low residence times in the atmosphere, but are re-volatilized, and can migrate over long distances and persist in the environment.
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But the healthy breeze of a neighbouring heath, on which we bounded at pleasure, volatilized the humours that improper food might have generated.
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For example, volatilized ammonia can be captured and diverted for useful purposes.
Testimony To Congress On Agricultural Animal Waste Regulations 1997
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According to current scientific studies, at least 67% and perhaps as much as 95% of the total nitrogen produced by swine (predominantly from urea in the urine) is actually volatilized as ammonia nitrogen, and is never accounted for in the waste - planning process.
Testimony To Congress On Agricultural Animal Waste Regulations 1997
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