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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

There are some metals that resist all attempts to volatilise them by the highest temperature producible in our furnaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke] Reference

They take fire at so low a temperature, that this assistance is not required to concentrate the heat and volatilise the fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

While it continues abundant, the passage of the current is so free -- the resistance to it is so small -- that the heat generated is incompetent to volatilise the silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

I shall show him presently, with fair luck, that my inelastic Saxon putty can transmute itself, can also volatilise in abandonment to sparkling nonsense; yet not tonight -- not tonight, monsieur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Junk] Reference

So that if the Clothes-Volume itself was too like a Chaos, we have now instead of the solar Luminary that should still it, the airy Limbo which by intermixture will farther volatilise and discompose it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference

Truth may also be compared in this respect to certain chemical stuffs which in themselves are gaseous, but which for official uses, as also for preservation or transmission, must be bound to a firm, palpable base, because they would otherwise volatilise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference

But still, wine constantly leads a man to the brink of absurdity and extravagance, and beyond a certain point it is sure to volatilise and to disperse the intellectual energies: whereas opium always seems to compose what had been agitated, and to concentrate what had been distracted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater] Reference

But besides the circumstance just explained, the common sorts of oils are not very highly combustible, so that the heat produced by a candle, which is a coarse kind of animal oil, being insufficient to volatilise them completely, a quantity of soot is gradually deposited on the wick, which dims the light, and retards the combustion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

When I saw any external object, my consciousness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, enclosing it in a slender, incorporeal outline which prevented me from ever coming directly in contact with the material form; for it would volatilise itself in some way before I could touch it, just as an incandescent body which is moved towards something wet never actually touches moisture, since it is always preceded, itself, by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

When I saw any external object, my consciousness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, enclosing it in a slender, incorporeal outline which prevented me from ever coming directly in contact with the material form; for it would volatilise itself in some way before I could touch it, just as an incandescent body which is moved towards something wet never actually touches moisture, since it is always preceded, itself, by a zone of evaporation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference