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volatile
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Word definitions for volatile in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Volatile \Vol"a*tile\, n. [Cf. F. volatile.] A winged animal; wild fowl; game. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --Sir T. Browne.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context physics English) evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions. 2 (context of a substance informal English) explosive. 3 (context of a price etc English) variable or erratic. 4 (context of a person English) quick to become angry ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s "fine or light," also "evaporating rapidly" (c.1600), from Middle French volatile , from Latin volatilis "fleeting, transitory; swift, rapid; flying, winged," from past participle stem of volare "to fly" (see volant ). Sense of "readily changing, ...
Usage examples of volatile.
Its tuberous root has been found to contain a particular volatile acrid principle which exercises distinct medicinal effects, though these are altogether dissipated if the roots are subjected to heat by boiling or baking.
Raw Onions contain an acrid volatile oil, sulphur, phosphorus, alkaline earthy salts, phosphoric and acetic acids, with phosphate and citrate of lime, starch, free uncrystallized sugar, and lignine.
The virtues of black Mustard depend on the acrid volatile oil contained in its seeds.
The explosion blew apart what had been left of the superstructure, taking with it the masts and antennae as the ship erupted into flames amidships, the fire migrating aft to the fuel tanks, where ruptured fuel lines spewed volatile fuel for the gas turbines into the bilges.
Chemists have determined that the Agrimony possesses a particular volatile oil, and yields nearly five per cent.
This is a volatile alkaloid which is not poisonous, and is thought to be almost identical with ammonia.
I invented for the same purpose the ether spray process, in which a benumbing cold was produced by projecting a volatile liquid like ether or amylene, or a stream of compressed gas .
First the Calamine ore must be roasted to remove volatile antagonists.
Besides containing citric and malic acids, the Raspberry affords a volatile oil of aromatic flavour, with crystallisable sugar, pectin, colouring matter, mucus, some mineral salts, and water.
The chemical constituents of the Strawberry are--a peculiar volatile aroma, sugar, mucilage, pectin, citric and malic acids in equal parts, woody fibre, and water.
Alex do as Holcroft instructed with a volatile provision of his own: He had six hundred sixty-odd thousand dollars coming to him from Dunstone, Limited, and he expected to collect it.
Old cheese ameliorates Apples if eaten when crude, probably by reason of the volatile alkali, or ammonia of the cheese neutralizing the acids of the Apple.
The volatile temperament of the French frontiersmen bubbled over with enthusiasm at the first hint of something new, and revolutionary in which they might be expected to take part.
The peel furnishes hesperidin, a volatile oil, gallic acid, and a bitter principle.
The experiments have been made with the vapors of two very volatile liquids, namely, sulphuric ether and hydride of amyl.