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
Amount of substance the molar mass. Molar quantities are sometimes denoted by a subscript Latin "m" in the symbol, e.g. "C", molar heat capacity at constant pressure: the subscript may be omitted if there is no risk of ambiguity, as is often the case in pure chemistry. The main derived quantity in which amount of substance enters into the numerator is amount of substance concentration, "c". This name is often abbreviated to "amount concentration", except in clinical chemistry where "substance concentration" is the preferred term to avoid ambiguity with mass concentration. The term "molar concentration" is incorrect, but commonly used. The alchemists, and