volatilize
verb (used without object)
to become volatile; pass off as vapor.
volatilise
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a variation of
volatilize.
Example Sentences
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A useful test of its purity is the fact that when subjected to a red-heat it should almost entirely volatilise, leaving very little residue.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
Finally, if the amount of picric acid be still further increased under these conditions, it will undergo partial decomposition and volatilise, but will not even deflagrate.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford
But such spectra are produced with the greatest brilliancy when, instead of ordinary gases, we make use of metals heated so highly as to volatilise them.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
There are some metals that resist all attempts to volatilise them by the highest temperature producible in our furnaces.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
So that if the Clothes-Volume itself was too like a 59Chaos, we have now instead of the solar Luminary that should still it, the airy Limbo which by intermixture will farther volatilise and discompose it!
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
