verb
definition
To make volatile; to cause to evaporate.
definition
To make insubstantial; to dissipate.
definition
To become volatile; to evaporate.
Examples of volatilize in a Sentence
All the rest, when heated by themselves, volatilize, some at lower, others at higher temperatures.
The vessel is then lowered into a jacket containing vapour at a known temperature which is sufficient to volatilize the substance.
It forms small cubes which melt at a red heat and volatilize readily.
The majority of the metallic chlorides are solids (stannic chloride, titanic chloride and antimony pentachloride are liquids) which readily volatilize on heating.
As a class, the metallic bromides are solids at ordinary temperatures, which fuse readily and volatilize on heating.
To understand the phenomena of the sun, we should reproduce them upon the earth; but this is clearly impossible since they take place at temperatures which volatilize all known substances.
Brimstone is easily burned without any extraneous help; indeed the only precaution required is to take care lest the heat produced by the burning sulphur should not volatilize part of it in the unburned state.
If the incrustation be white and readily volatile, arsenic is present, if more difficultly volatile and beads are present, antimony; zinc gives an incrustation yellow whilst hot, white on cooling, and volatilized with difficulty; tin gives a pale yellow incrustation, which becomes white on cooling, and does not volatilize in either the reducing or oxidizing flames; lead gives a lemon-yellow incrustation turning sulphur-yellow on cooling, together with metallic malleable beads; bismuth gives metallic globules and a dark orange-yellow incrustation, which becomes lemon-yellow on cooling; cadmium gives a reddish-brown incrustation, which is removed without leaving a gleam by heating in the reducing flame; silver gives white metallic globules and a dark-red incrustation.
Liquids are amenable to the same treatment, but especial care must be taken so that they volatilize slowly.