volatile substance
Example Sentences
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Alaska restricts flaring of natural gas, a common way to dispose of the volatile substance, but a lack of pipelines limits shipments to markets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Fixed, solid matter might be signified by an earthbound toad, or a volatile substance by a bird or feathers.
From Nature • Apr. 28, 2020
The inventors of America’s liberties, their sensibilities born of the Enlightenment, understood the new world in America as an experiment with the volatile substance of freedom.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2012
The reactor is designed to be cooled by liquid sodium, a highly volatile substance, and there are some doubts about the ability of the reactor to control a catastrophic leakage in the sodium ducts.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
From The Time Machine by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
