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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 treated filament was found to be a harder form of carbon that did not volatilize as rapidly as the untreated filament.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

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

At the other end from sadism, it is nearly volatilized.

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

While thus packing in a partial vacuum undoubtedly retards oxidation and precludes escape of aroma from the original package, it would seem likely to hasten the initial volatilizing of the aroma.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

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

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

By the discharge of the battery, Franklin succeeded in melting and volatilizing gold-leaf, thin strips of tinfoil, etc.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett




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