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volatility

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volatility [‚väl·ə′til·əd·ē]
(thermodynamics)
The quality of having a low boiling point or subliming temperature at ordinary pressure or, equivalently, of having a high vapor pressure at ordinary temperatures.


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Our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character.
Either this or a natural volatility lent a breezy rapidity to the visitor's speech.
 
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