volatilizes's Usage Examples:

When heated alone it partially volatilizes, but the greater part decomposes; under a pressure of 12 mm.

The barium salt is extracted by water and boiled with nitric acid, when the osmium volatilizes in the form of its tetroxide.

The salt volatilizes (mostly in the form of a mixed vapour of the two components, which reunite on cooling), and condenses in the dome in the form of a characteristically fibrous and tough crust.

The residue is then heated in a current of superheated steam, in which the boric acid volatilizes and distils over.

It is almost insoluble in water, but readily volatilizes in steam.

995; it melts at about 800° and volatilizes at a bright red heat.

It has also been shown that gold volatilizes when a gold-amalgam is distilled.

It forms a white silky mass which volatilizes at about 400° C.

At still higher temperatures it volatilizes, forming a reddish vapour.

This artifice is specially valuable when the substance decomposes or volatilizes in a warm current of carbon dioxide.

(a) Hofmann's is the best if the substance volatilizes at below 310°, and does not react on mercury; otherwise (b) Demuth and Meyer's, Eykman's, Schall's, or other methods may be used.

In the oxyhydrogen flame silver boils, forming a blue vapour, while platinum volatilizes slowly, and osmium, though infusible, very readily.

Synonyms:

change, alter, modify, volatilise,

Antonyms:

stiffen, decrease, tune, dissimilate, detransitivize,