Synonyms:
volatile
Meaning: evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures; "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
volatile
Meaning: a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"
Usage examples
This swarthy general, volatile and dramatic, nevertheless had great penetration.
These preparations are not volatile, so that there is not much fear of lung trouble.
In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
Maximilian was personally brave and free from depravity or premeditated perfidy, but he was coarse, volatile, inconsistent, and not very able.
There were a great many patients, but the time was short, and so the work was confined to the asking of a few brief questions and the administration of some drugs, such as castor-oil or volatile ointment.
The Virginians were less volatile than the South Carolinians, and they had long refused to go out, but now that they were out they were pouring into the Southern army, and they were animated by an extraordinary zeal.
In the fire he burns various kinds of wood, which are supposed to possess the property of driving off rain; and he puffs in the direction from which the rain threatens to come, holding in his hand a packet of leaves and bark which derive a similar cloud-compelling virtue, not from their chemical composition, but from their names, which happen to signify something dry or volatile.