Usage examples (12)

• A useful test of its purity is the fact that when subjected to a red-heat it should almost entirely volatilise, leaving very little residue.
• There are some metals that resist all attempts to volatilise them by the highest temperature producible in our furnaces.
• -- They take fire at so low a temperature, that this assistance is not required to concentrate the heat and volatilise the fluid.
• But such spectra are produced with the greatest brilliancy when, instead of ordinary gases, we make use of metals heated so highly as to volatilise them.