Converted into a gas or vapor.
1 The bomb started to cook, building up pressure inside as the sodium volatilised .
2 My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised .
3 Where the burning is accompanied by smoke, there is an apparent return of volatilised matter to solid form.
4 On separating the one from the other, a brilliant arc containing the mercury in a volatilised condition passes between them.
5 Beryllia, in a solution of carbonate of ammonia, is precipitated as carbonate on boiling in proportion as the carbonate of ammonia is volatilised .
6 The old formulae of subscription were so symbolised, so volatilised , that they could not stand in the way of anyone but a combative nihilist.
7 We have gone over many varieties of the comic, and there is not one of them that is incapable of being volatilised into a witticism.
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