volatile substance

Example Sentences

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Alaska restricts flaring of natural gas, a common way to dispose of the volatile substance, but a lack of pipelines limits shipments to markets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Fixed, solid matter might be signified by an earthbound toad, or a volatile substance by a bird or feathers.

From Nature • Apr. 28, 2020

The inventors of America’s liberties, their sensibilities born of the Enlightenment, understood the new world in America as an experiment with the volatile substance of freedom.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2012

Clinton can take heart from the fact that presidential popularity is an extremely volatile substance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Infuse vinegar, To draw his volatile substance and his tincture: And let the water in glass E be filter'd, And put into the gripe's egg.

From The Alchemist by Jonson, Ben