Definitions for volatiles
volatiles

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1. volatilesnoun

   The volatile part of a petroleum fraction

2. volatilesnoun

   The volatile parts of a planet's atmosphere or crust

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1. Volatiles

   In planetary science, volatiles are the group of chemical elements and chemical compounds with low boiling points that are associated with a planet's or moon's crust and/or atmosphere. Examples include nitrogen, water, carbon dioxide, ammonia, hydrogen, methane and sulfur dioxide. In astrogeology, these compounds, in their solid state, often comprise large proportions of the crusts of moons and dwarf planets. In contrast with volatiles, elements and compounds with high boiling points are known as refractory substances. Planetary scientists often classifly volatiles with exceptionally low melting points, such as hydrogen and helium, as gases, while those volatiles with melting points above about 100 K are referred to as ices. The terms "gas" and "ice" in this context can apply to compounds that may be solids, liquids or gases. Thus, Jupiter and Saturn are referred to as "gas giants", and Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants", even though the vast majority of the "gas" and "ice" in their interiors is a hot, highly dense fluid that gets denser as the center of the planet is approached. The Earth's Moon is considered very low in volatiles: its crust contains oxygen chemically bound into the rocks, but negligible amounts of hydrogen, nitrogen or carbon.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of volatiles in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of volatiles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of volatiles in a Sentence

1. Rajdeep Dasgupta:

   This study suggests that a rocky, Earth-like planet gets more chances to acquire life-essential elements if it forms and grows from giant impacts with planets that have sampled different building blocks, perhaps from different parts of a protoplanetary disk, this removes some boundary conditions. It shows that life-essential volatiles can arrive at the surface layers of a planet, even if they were produced on planetary bodies that underwent core formation under very different conditions.

2. Ian Crawford:

   If you're just interested in platinum group elements, you would probably go and mine the asteroids, on the other hand, if going to the moon for scavenging polar volatiles, rare earth elements … then the impact sites of crashed asteroids could offer an added bonus.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Volatiles
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=volatiles