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
The reactor is designed to be cooled by liquid sodium, a highly volatile substance, and there are some doubts about the ability of the reactor to control a catastrophic leakage in the sodium ducts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ingredient in tea that gives it its odor and flavor is a volatile substance.
From School and Home Cooking by Greer, Carlotta Cherryholmes
