volatilize

American  

[vol-uh-tl-ahyz] / ˈvɒl ə tlˌaɪz /

especially British, volatilise

verb (used without object)

volatilized, volatilizing

1. to become volatile; pass off as vapor.

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verb (used with object)

volatilized, volatilizing

1. to make volatile; cause to pass off as vapor.

volatilize British  

/ vɒˈlætɪˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to change or cause to change from a solid or liquid to a vapour

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Other Word Forms

• volatilization
  noun
• volatilizer
  noun
• nonvolatilizable
  adjective
• nonvolatilized
  adjective
• unvolatilized
  adjective
• volatilizable
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of volatilize

First recorded in 1650–60; volatile + -ize

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Example Sentences

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volatilize volatilized volatilizing

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

Almost instantly the entire hull became blinding white, but it was several seconds before the extremely refractory material began to volatilize.

From Skylark Three by Hans Waldemar Wessolowski

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

Had the volatilized virus been circulated by the plane's ventilating system?

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

Those oils should be selected which, with a maximum of viscosity, are capable of withstanding great heat without volatilizing or burning.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by R. E. Mathot

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

"Do you mean by volatilizing that it is put into a steam?"

From The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Roger Thompson Finlay

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