Volatility or volatile may refer to:
Chemistry
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Volatility (chemistry), a measuring tendency of a substance or liquid to vaporize easily
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Relative volatility, a measure of vapor pressures of the components in a liquid mixture
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Volatiles, a group of compounds with low boiling points that are associated with a planet's or moon's crust and atmosphere
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Volatile organic compounds, organic or carbon compounds that can evaporate at normal temperature and pressure
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Volatile anaesthetics, a class of anaesthetics which evaporate or vaporize easily
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Volatile substance abuse, the abuse of household inhalants containing volatile compounds
* Volatile oil, also known as
essential oil
An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (easily evaporated at normal temperatures) chemical compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile oils, ethereal oils, aetheroleum, or simply as the o ...
, an oil derived from plants with aromatic compounds used in cosmetic and flavoring industries
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Volatile acidity, a term used in wine making to indicate an unacceptably high level of an acid or vinegar
Computer science
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Volatile variables, variables that can be changed by an external process
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Volatile memory, memory that lasts only while the power is on (and thus would be lost after a restart)
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Volatility (memory forensics)
Volatility is an open-source memory forensics framework for incident response and malware analysis. It is written in Python and supports Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families de ...
, an open source memory forensics tool
Other uses
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Volatility (finance), a measure of the risk in a financial instrument
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Volatiles, the volatile compounds of magma (mostly water vapor) that affect the appearance and strength of volcanoes
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Stochastic volatility, in the mathematical theory of probability
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Pedersen index The Pedersen index is a measure of electoral volatility in party systems. It was described by Mogens Pedersen in a paper published in 1979 entitled ''The Dynamics of European Party Systems: Changing Patterns of Electoral Volatility''.
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, a measure of electoral volatility in political party systems
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Volatile Games, a video games maker
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''Volatile'' (A Hero A Fake album), 2008
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''Volatile'' (The Lime Spiders album), 1988
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