volatilize

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The companies said they would make new dicamba formulations that would stay where they were sprayed and would not volatilize as older versions of dicamba were believed to do.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2020

“Even today, if you talk to most chemists, and you say, 'I want to volatilize gold,' they're like, 'What are you talking about?'”

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2018

"I started thinking about how to volatilize a fragrant oil off the surface of toilet bowl water."

From BusinessWeek • Mar. 3, 2011

One place where money was going was into such ordinarily dead issues as coal stocks, which nothing short of a World War could volatilize.

From Time Magazine Archive

But every plant has some kind of a smell, that is, all of them have essential oils which volatilize in the air.

From Plotting in Pirate Seas by Federer, C. A. (Charles A.)