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/ˈvälədl/
adjective
  1. (of a substance) easily evaporated at normal temperatures.
    "volatile solvents such as petroleum ether, hexane, and benzene"
    synonyms: evaporative, vaporous, vaporescent, explosive, eruptive, inflammable, unstable, labile
  2. liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.
    "the political situation was becoming more volatile"
    synonyms: tense, strained, fraught, uneasy, uncomfortable, charged, explosive, eruptive, inflammatory, turbulent, in turmoil, full of upheavals, hairy, nail-biting, white-knuckle, dodgy
  3. (of a computer's memory) retaining data only as long as there is a power supply connected.

noun
a volatile substance.

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