volatilize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
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Origin of 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
Thus to volatilize the material simultaneously in the form and to join the technical with the intuitive elements is the highest quality of lyric poetry.
From Paul Verlaine by Zweig, Stefan
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
It has also been not unfrequently stated that the injurious effects of this pigment are due to the arsenious oxide volatilizing from the other constituents of the compound.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various
I see the sulphur of the gunpowder at the present moment volatilizing, but the flame, cooled by the action of the metal, is not hot enough to set fire to the gunpowder.
From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott
High-energy beams blasted, fairly volatilizing the ground as they struck in as deep as they could be driven.
From The Galaxy Primes by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
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