The Collaborative International Dictionary
Volatilization \Vol`a*til*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. volatilisation.] The act or process of volatilizing, or rendering volatile; the state of being volatilized.
Wiktionary
n. The conversion of a solid or liquid into a gas; vaporization; evaporation or sublimation.
Usage examples of "volatilization".
The loss in manuring matters, which is incurred in keeping manure-heaps exposed to the weather, is not so much due to the volatilization of ammonia as to the removal of ammoniacal salts, soluble nitrogenized organic matters, and valuable mineral matters, by the rain which falls in the period during which the manure is kept.
Through and throughout the entire volume of volatilization Nadreck drove analyzers and detectors, until he knew positively that no particle of material substance larger in diameter than five microns remained of either Kandron or his space-ship.