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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 vessel is then lowered into a jacket containing vapour at a known temperature which is sufficient to volatilize the substance.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

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

When the date arrived, however, Jerome Connor had usually volatilized again.

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

"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

High-energy beams blasted, fairly volatilizing the ground as they struck in as deep as they could be driven.

From The Galaxy Primes by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith




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