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  2. Volition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    That same sentence that used an additional clause can be expressed as a simple sentence, which can be considered a unitary event. [9] The differences between the two sentence constructions deals in the transitivity of the verb. An example of each sentence form is shown below. In example a, 'topple' takes on only one argument, the subject.

  3. Volatility - Wikipedia

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    Volatile anaesthetics, a class of anaesthetics which evaporate or vaporize easily; Volatile substance abuse, the abuse of household inhalants containing volatile compounds; Volatile oil, also known as essential oil, an oil derived from plants with aromatic compounds used in cosmetic and flavoring industries

  4. Volatility (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    The most volatile chemical condense at the top of the column while the least volatile chemicals to vaporize condense in the lowest portion. [1] The difference in volatility between water and ethanol has long been used to produce concentrated alcoholic beverages (many of these are referred to as "liquors"). In order to increase the concentration ...

  5. volatile (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    In C and C++, volatile is a type qualifier, like const, and is a part of a type (e.g. the type of a variable or field). The behavior of the volatile keyword in C and C++ is sometimes given in terms of suppressing optimizations of an optimizing compiler: 1- don't remove existing volatile reads and writes, 2- don't add new volatile reads and writes, and 3- don't reorder volatile reads and writes.

  6. Volatile memory - Wikipedia

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    Volatile memory has several uses including as primary storage. In addition to usually being faster than forms of mass storage such as a hard disk drive, volatility can protect sensitive information, as it becomes unavailable on power-down. Most general-purpose random-access memory (RAM) is volatile. [1]

  7. Petwo lwa - Wikipedia

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    The Petwo (Haitian Creole: Petwo), also spelled Petro [a] and alternatively known as dompete, are a family of lwa (loa) spirits in the religion of Haitian Vodou.They are regarded as being volatile and "hot", in this contrasting with the Rada lwa, which are regarded as sweet-tempered and "cool."

  8. Fluoride volatility - Wikipedia

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    Blue elements have volatile fluorides or are already volatile; green elements do not but have volatile chlorides; red elements have neither, but the elements themselves are volatile at very high temperatures. Yields at 10 0,1,2,3 years after fission, not considering later neutron capture, fraction of 100% not 200%.

  9. Volatile organic compound - Wikipedia

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    Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic compounds that have a high vapor pressure at room temperature. [1] They are common and exist in a variety of settings and products, not limited to house mold, upholstered furniture, arts and crafts supplies, dry cleaned clothing, and cleaning supplies. [2]