Verb
To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed-in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter. Eliphas Levi
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept. Friedrich Nietzsche
The Final Environmental Impact Statement from the State Department does not include a quantitative analysis because it assumed that most benzene will volatilize. Source: Internet
The reaction products mostly volatilize into the overhead vapours, and recombine when these condense to form urea again, which contaminates the process condensate. Source: Internet
It is unclear how temperature and depth would impact the volatility of benzene, so assumptions have been made that benzene in oil (1% weight by volume) would not volatilize before equilibrating with water. Source: Internet
Sometimes the metal was entirely incombustible, but when alloyed with osmium, it would volatilize. Source: Internet