单词 | volatilize |
释义 | volatilizev. 1. a. transitive. To render volatile; to cause to evaporate or disperse in vapour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > make into gas or produce gas from [verb (transitive)] > make into vapour > make volatile volatize1650 volatilize1658 volatify1666 1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. Ep. to Rdr. sig. a7 Salt of Tartar volatilized, or made into a spiritual Elixir, with any essential oyle, is an absolute corrector of all vegetal poysons. 1673 N. Grew Idea Phytol. Hist. iii. 124 The Aerial-Vessels, or rather the Airy Ferment contained in them, volatilizing a smaller portion of the Sap. 1756 Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 341 Hence we see how necessary heat is, to volatilize the rancid oil. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 253 The Glass..is likely to detain any of the nobler Metals, which the arsenick might otherwise volatilize. 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 254 The acids belonging to the first order are crystallizable, and they may be volatilized by heat without undergoing decomposition. 1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 221 When the protochloride of uranium is carefully heated, so as not to volatilize it,..this compound remains. 1874 tr. E. Lommel Nature of Light (ed. 4) 153 If a fragment of zinc be volatilised between the carbon poles a series of beautifully coloured striæ are seen. b. figurative. To render light, airy, unsubstantial, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > be or make insubstantial [verb (transitive)] > deprive of substance volatilize1664 unsubstantiate1799 unsubstantialize1814 dissubstantiate1871 desubstantiate1884 desubstantialize1940 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Concl. 184 The greatest part of Humanity is [so] lost in Earth..that nothing can volatilize them, and set their Reasons at Liberty. 1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater 96 Beyond a certain point, it is sure to volatilize and to disperse the intellectual energies. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xli. 599 Propertius is deficient in that light touch and exquisitely polished taste which volatilize the sensuality and flattery of Horace. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 274 On the other hand [in Philo's philosophy] angels are sometimes volatilised into ideas. 2. intransitive. To become volatile; to evaporate. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > become gas [verb (intransitive)] > become vapour > become volatile volatize1685 volatilize1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Volatilisation, To dispose the fix'd Salts of Plants to volatilise, the Process is to be begun by making them into a Sapa. 1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 33 It does not give out its Acid in any heat, but rather volatilizes. 1822 Imison's Sci. & Art II. 125 It easily fuses and Volatilizes before the blow-pipe. 1842 E. A. Parnell Elements Chem. Anal. (1845) 21 The chlorine is expelled almost before the acid begins to volatilize. 1880 W. MacCormac Antiseptic Surg. 152 The solution must be renewed from time to time as the carbolic acid volatilises. Derivatives ˈvolatilized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adjective] > connected with or producing vaporization > able to be vaporized > volatile > made volatile volatized1671 volatilized1825 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 724 The volatilised mercury is again condensed. 1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. 282 The spectrum of the volatilised metal falls on the sensitive plate. ˈvolatilizer n. an apparatus for volatilizing. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [noun] > becoming or making into vapour > ability to become vapour > volatility > device for volatilizer1897 1897 Kellogg in Voice (N.Y.) 23 Dec. 5/2 The employment of medicinal vapors by means of a suitable volatilizer or vaporizer. ˈvolatilizing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adjective] > connected with or producing vaporization > able to be vaporized > volatile > making volatile volatizing1685 volatilizing1727 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Volatilizing, making volatile. c1789 Encycl. Brit. IV. 513/1 To bring vinegar therefore nearer the state of tartar, we must deprive it of its fine volatilizing phlogiston. 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 87 The volatilising turpentine may..carry into the air particles of plumbic carbonate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1658 |
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