volatilization
noun
volatilization is a noun meaning “The conversion of a solid or liquid into a gas; vaporization; evaporation or sublimation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-L-A-T-I-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of volatilization is volatilizations.
What does volatilization mean?
noun
- 1
The conversion of a solid or liquid into a gas; vaporization; evaporation or sublimation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of volatilization
- volatilizations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is volatilization?
Volatilization appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does volatilization come from?
From volatile + -ization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).