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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

What does volatile means?????

Profile image of Nidhi Prajapati
11 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Gaurav
11 Years ago
Hello Student
So you are asking about VOLATILE, It refers to a property of some chemicals to vaporise readily; for example Alocohol, it vaporise very fast and produces a cooling action.
Also you can say that Volatility is the tendency of a substance to vaporise and it relates to the vapour pressure of that substance. higher the vapour pressure higher the tendency to vaporise.