Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To become or make volatile.
- v. To evaporate or cause to evaporate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
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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.”
“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.”
“But at the same time, the envy that rose in them made them want to reject the city, vaporize it, volatilize it, erase it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Its char - acteristic action was to concoct materials, to bring them to fruition, to energize, sometimes to volatilize or dissolve.”
“Moreover, precipitates are never wholly insoluble; and most substances will volatilize and lose some of their weight if heated to an excessive temperature.”
“The metal obtained melts at about 700°C, above which temperature it starts to volatilize.”
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