volatilize

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Or it can volatilize, wafting through the air and reacting with airborne compounds that are emitted by other cleaning agents, personal care materials or by-products of cooking.

From Scientific American

And hotter weather, also tied to climate change, causes mercury to volatilize and be released.

From Washington Times

If it smells like volatilized lead and melted plastic when you get home, don’t worry.

From Nature

“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

Field tests by researchers at the Universities of Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas have since found that the new dicamba herbicides can volatilize and float to other fields as long as 72 hours after application.

From Washington Post