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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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
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
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
While it continues abundant, the passage of the current is so free — the resistance to it is so small — that the heat generated is incompetent to volatilise the silver.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
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
