American spelling: the process of removing volatile (easily evaporating) substances from materials through heating, used in chemistry, geology, and manufacturing.
From de- + volatilization, using the American -ization suffix. The term became common in 20th-century materials science.
In space exploration, scientists heat lunar and Martian samples to watch what gases escape—the pattern of devolatilization tells them the planetary history in the rocks!
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