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

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.

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.

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

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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