volatile substance
Example Sentences
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Methane is an extremely volatile substance that can quickly change from solid ice to gas.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
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
Its greatest value is in the separation of a volatile substance from one less volatile, or one which is entirely fixed at the temperature of the flame.
