A small quantity carefully heated in a tube, closed at one end, can even be completely volatilised without apparent decomposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

The night air was keen and sharp, but perfectly calm, and I felt myself awakened to the highest degree, almost as if my senses were volatilised by the still and ice-cold air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference

Mercury is allowed to fall, in a fine rain, on to melted sulphur; a black substance is produced; this black substance is heated in a closed vessel, it is volatilised and transformed into a beautiful red solid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

But on this first day I discerned nothing, the warmth of my attention volatilised at once the little that I might otherwise have been able to extract from her, in which I should have found some indication of the name Guermantes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guermantes Way] Reference

The frame of a looking-glass was blackened, and the gilding must have been volatilised, for a smelling-bottle, which stood on the chimney-piece, was coated with bright metallic particles, which adhered as firmly as if they had been enamelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

The process is of course carried out in a vessel provided with any means for gentle stirring and heating, and with an outlet for carrying off the volatilised solvent which is entirely recovered by condensation, the grains parting with the acetone with ease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference

Ignited with ammonium chloride portions are volatilised.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference

On heating over the Bunsen burner it is completely volatilised, leaving no residue.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference

On evaporating these solutions it is volatilised, although the anhydrous oxide is "fixed" at a red heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference

If I recollect rightly, the former are decomposed by heat, whilst the latter are merely volatilised by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

~ -- The assay after the addition of the potassic iodide must be kept cold, else iodine may be volatilised.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference

My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference

On separating the one from the other, a brilliant arc containing the mercury in a volatilised condition passes between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic] Reference

The woman had been set free, —volatilised like Clerk Maxwell’s perfect gas; —almost brought to the point of explosion, like steam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vis Inertiae (1903)] Reference

The old formulae of subscription were so symbolised, so volatilised, that they could not stand in the way of anyone but a combative nihilist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

In this, as in most combustions, a considerable part of the carbon is simply volatilised by the heat, and again obtained concrete on cooling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

Beryllia, in a solution of carbonate of ammonia, is precipitated as carbonate on boiling in proportion as the carbonate of ammonia is volatilised.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference

None are so hard as that they cannot be melted by the high temperature of love, just as there are no metals that cannot be volatilised if exposed to intense heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference

Now the volatilised metal which gives us one bright band is to be figured as having its atoms united by springs all of the same tension, its vibrations are all of one kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

But this, though a perfectly true and intelligible analogy, is not sufficient for our purpose; we must look with the mind's eye at the oscillating atoms of the volatilised metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

There will be on the part of those particular rays a transference of motion from the agitated aether to the atoms of the volatilised metal, which, as already defined, is absorption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

It must be remembered, however, that, although ammonic chloride is volatile, it cannot be volatilised in the presence of substances which form volatile chlorides without loss of the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference

The correspondence of the colour of the light with that of the oxyd which emits it, is, in all probability, owing to some particles of the metal which are volatilised and carried off by the caloric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

Free or native sulphur may be volatilised, condensed, and weighed, but pyrites only gives up a portion of its sulphur when heated in a closed vessel, while most sulphides, and all sulphates, give up none at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference

But it is true with respect to lead, and some other noxious metals, because, unless care be taken, the particles of the oxyd which are volatilised by the heat are inhaled in with the breath, and may produce dangerous effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

This fraud may readily be detected by evaporating a quantity of the liquor in a table-spoon over a candle, to dryness; the sugar will thus be rendered obvious, in the form of a gum-like substance, when the spirit is volatilised.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference

Sublimation appears to consist in destroying, by means of heat, the attraction of aggregation of the particles of a solid body, which are thus volatilised; and as soon as they lose the caloric which produced that effect, they are deposited in the form of a fine powder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

(making these intervals appear darker) until it is again volatilised on reaching a level of greater heat below the clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Heavens] Reference