NONVOLATILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonvolatile mean? 

• NONVOLATILE (adjective)
  The adjective NONVOLATILE has 1 sense:

1. not volatilizing readily

  Familiarity information: NONVOLATILE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONVOLATILE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not volatilizing readily

Synonyms:

nonvolatile; nonvolatilisable; nonvolatilizable

Context example:

a nonvolatile acid

Antonym:

volatile (evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures)

 Context examples 

Means of delivering nonvolatile analytes into the gas phase for mass analysis.

(Electrospray Ionization, NCI Thesaurus)