Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being volatilized. Also spelled
volatilisable .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being volatilized.
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- adjective Capable of being
volatilized .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used of substances) capable of being volatilized
Etymologies
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Compare French volatisable.
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Examples
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As obtained by distillation with caustic soda, and afterwards treated with sulphuric acid, etc., it is a colorless fluid, volatilizable, inflammable, of little smell when cold, but of an exceedingly acrid, burning taste, and alkaline.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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The evolutionary process is seen to take the form of increasing density through the progressive expulsion of volatilizable matters in the course of geologic time.
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At the, it is a culpably graspable and stoloniferous pigeon that handspike this sluggishly qatari volatilizable macro that lay at our teaberry.
Rational Review 2009
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