Exploding and Volatile

verb

• Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.
  • usage: "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
  • synonyms: explode, detonate, blow up, set off
• Burst outward, usually with noise.
  • usage: "The champagne bottle exploded"
  • synonyms: explode, burst
• Show a violent emotional reaction.
  • usage: "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"
  • synonyms: explode
• Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.
  • usage: "His anger exploded"
  • synonyms: explode, burst forth, break loose
• Destroy by exploding.
  • usage: "The enemy exploded the bridge"
  • synonyms: explode
• Cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/.
  • synonyms: explode
• Drive from the stage by noisy disapproval.
  • synonyms: explode
• Show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete.
  • synonyms: explode
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: detonate, explode, blow up
• Increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner.
  • usage: "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"
  • synonyms: explode, irrupt

noun

• A volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor.
  • usage: "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"

adjective

• Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures.
  • usage: "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents"
• Liable to lead to sudden change or violence.
  • usage: "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"
  • synonyms: explosive
• Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments.
  • usage: "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"
  • synonyms: fickle
• Tending to vary often or widely.
  • usage: "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions"

• (a.) Capable of wasting away or of easily passing into the aeriform state; subject to evaporation.
• (a.) Passing through the air on wings or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
• (a.) Fig.: Light-hearted; easily affected by circumstances; airy; lively; hence, changeable; fickle; as, a volatile temper.
• (n.) A winged animal; wild fowl; game.

VOLATILE refers to liquids that change to gas at moderate, room temperatures.