The Only Use of
volatile
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The phial, to which I next turned my attention, might have been about half-full of a blood-red liquor, which was highly pungent to the sense of smell and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether.†
p. 74..5
Definition:
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(volatile as in: a volatile situation) quick to change; or emotionally explosive