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Definition of "volatilize" []

  • To become or make volatile. (verb-transitive)
  • To evaporate or cause to evaporate. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "volatilize" in a sentence
  • "As you begin to chew, some scent molecules volatilize and travel up to the olfactory organ through a “back door” - that is up a passage at the back of the throat and to the nose."
  • "The length of time air masses remain at, or above, critical temperatures influences the extent to which an organic contaminant can volatilize and remain easily within the gas phase, or attached to airborne particles."
  • "It can also volatilize from fields or manure lagoons into the atmosphere and be redeposited where it can wash into waterways."