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The evolutionary process is seen to take the form of increasing density through the progressive expulsion of volatilizable matters in the course of geologic time.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)

As obtained by distillation with caustic soda, and afterwards treated with sulphuric acid, etc., it is a colorless fluid, volatilizable, inflammable, of little smell when cold, but of an exceedingly acrid, burning taste, and alkaline.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various