15 examples of volatility in sentences

On account of the great volatility of its oil, it should never be preserved by drying, but should be kept moist by being buried in sand.

The volatility of his humour was constantly leading him into playfulness, and he never lost an opportunity of making a pun or saying a quaint thing.

Even here, remembering the volatility and sprightliness, inseparable from the age, humanity will induce him not to animadvert with warmth upon the appearances of a casual distraction, but he will rather solicit the return of attention by gentleness, than severity.

This was from no natural lack of volatility, for he was an Acht-und-vierziger (Forty-eighter).

These essential oils have greater or less volatility, and are all inflammable; many of them are poisons to us, as these of Laurel and Tobacco; others possess a narcotic quality, as is evinced by the oil of cloves instantly relieving slight tooth-achs; from oil of cinnamon relieving the hiccup; and balsam of peru relieving the pain of some ulcers.

Levity N. levity; lightness &c adj.; imponderability, buoyancy, volatility.

Gaseity N. gaseity^; vaporousness &c adj.; flatulence, flatulency; volatility; aeration, aerification.

[Chem], cohobation, sublimination^, exhalation; volatility.

In the assembly, where you passed the last night, there appeared such sprightliness of air, and volatility of fancy, as might have suited beings of a higher order, formed to inhabit serener regions, inaccessible to care or sorrow; yet, believe me, prince, there was not one who did not dread the moment, when solitude should deliver him to the tyranny of reflection.

But she came home once a year, more lovely and elegant and dainty than ever; and Maggie thought, with truth, that ripening years were softening down her volatility, and that her aunt's dewlike sayings had quietly sunk deep, and fertilized the soil.

Her exceeding volatility of temper, which was the cause of her instability, often occasioned her bitter reflections; and as it was a source of trouble to herself, excited the anxiety of her mother, who frequently said to her, "There's a wide world will tame thee."

The light prairie soil, when thoroughly saturated, is capable of very great volatility and yet of stick-to-it-iveness.

He was a tall man, a little bent at the shoulders from long years of desk-work; and those who saw him for the first time were apt to be struck by a certain eager volatility of aspectexpressed by the small head on its thin neck, by the wavering blue eyes, and smiling mouthnot perhaps common in the chief cashiers of country banks.

Such have been my situations in life, and the natural volatility of my temper, that I have looked but little into my own heart in regard to its future wishes and views.

True, you have erred; misled by the gayety of your disposition, and that volatility and inconsideration which were incident to your years; but you have seen and nobly confessed your errors.

15 examples of  volatility  in sentences