[f. next + -ATION. Cf. F. volatilisation, Sp. -izacion, Pg. -ização, 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. Ibid. (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. Ibid. (1782), 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.
