Volatility (chemistry) Volatility (chemistry) In chemistry and physics, volatility is quantified by the tendency of a substance to vaporize. Volatility is directly related to a substance's vapor pressure. At a given temperature, a substance with higher vapor pressure vaporizes more readily than a substance with a lower vapor pressure. The term is primarily written to be applied to liquids; however, it may be used to describe the process of sublimation which is associated with solid substances, such as dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) and osmium tetroxide (OsO), which can change directly from the solid state to a vapor, without becoming liquid. The
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals Editors-in-Chief are C.A. McCammon (University of Bayreuth, Germany), M. Matsui, University of Hyogo, Japan), M. Rieder, (Praha, Czech Republic), and P. C. Burnley (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA). Physics and Chemistry of Minerals Physics and Chemistry of Minerals is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal publishes articles and short communications on minerals or solids related to minerals and covers applications of modern techniques or new theories and models to interpret atomic structures and physical of chemical properties of minerals. Topics includes: general solid state spectroscopy, experimental and theoretical analysis of chemical bonding