volatilize

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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

Sulphides.—Many sulphides, when heated in an ignition tube, volatilize and give a sublimate of sulphur in combination with the metallic portion of the substance.

From The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis by Getman, Frederick Hutton