volatilization
(vɒlətɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən)
[f. next + -ation. Cf. F. volatilisation, Sp. -izacion, Pg. -iza{cced}ão, It. -izzazione.]
The action or process of making volatile; the state of being volatilized.
| 1661 Boyle Scept. Chem. vi. (1680) 420 Multitudes of Chymists have..attempted in Vain the Volatilization of the Salt of Tartar. 1663 ― Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. App. 373 This volatile red Balsam (especially if by this volatilization the Antimony have lost its Emetick property) we cannot but think endowed with more then ordinary Vertues. 1744 Phil. Trans. XLIII. 143 The Contagion of pestilential Fevers proceeds from a Subtilization and Volatilization of the perspirable Humours. 1782 Ibid. LXXIII. 55 Nor can this be attributed to the volatilization of the acid by heat. 1827 Faraday Chem. Manip. iv. (1842) 130 At higher temperatures, the volatilization and decomposition of these bodies would occasion inconvenience. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Rec. Ser. i. 11 In fusing the three metals together there is always a loss of zinc by volatilization. |
| fig. 1882 Cent. Mag. Sept. 783 Analyses of humor are apt to leave one rather serious, and to result in an entire volatilization of the humor. |