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volatilize

[vol-uh-tl-ahyz] / ˈvɒl ə tlˌaɪz /


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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

The way in which lamps burst is sometimes very beautiful; they disintegrate, they seem to volatilize, and the substance of the lamp is projected with great force against the side of the globe.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

These fires volatilized the lead and wafted it over the surrounding area, sprinkling particles onto the land and lakes.

From Scientific American Feb. 6, 2023

Although he relished putting his life into his art, he boiled life in his poet’s alembic at a pretty high temperature, and much of the who, when, and how was volatilized away.

From The New Yorker Feb. 2, 2017

Although the method is slightly slower than the frog egg approach, it has some distinct advantages: Most notably it responds to volatilized odorants so it works with compounds that don't dissolve readily in water.

From Washington Post Feb. 17, 2010

Had the volatilized virus been circulated by the plane's ventilating system?

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet this chemical, a form of benzene hexachloride, is much used in vaporizers, devices that pour a stream of volatilized insecticide vapor into homes, offices, restaurants.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

These effects were caused by ethylene volatilizing from the lamps.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

We were very lonely, because we were the first architects in New York to starting asking, "What's in a product and what's it volatilizing in the commercial sector?"

From Forbes Aug. 4, 2010

Those oils should be selected which, with a maximum of viscosity, are capable of withstanding great heat without volatilizing or burning.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by Mathot, R. E.

This is removed from the fire and cooled down to a point, where turpentine can be added without volatilizing.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

"Do you mean by volatilizing that it is put into a steam?"

From The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Finlay, Roger Thompson




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