Volatility

Volatility or volatile may refer to:

Chemistry

Volatility (chemistry), a measuring tendency of a substance or liquid to vaporize easily
- Volatile organic compounds, organic or carbon compounds that can evaporate at normal temperature and pressure
  - 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
Relative volatility, a measure of vapor pressures of the components in a liquid mixture
Volatile acid/Volatile acidity, a term used inconsisitenly across the fields of winemaking, wastewater treatment, physiology, and other fields
Volatile (astrogeology), a group of compounds with low boiling points that are associated with a planet's or moon's crust and atmosphere

Computer science

Volatile variables
, variables that can be changed by an external process
Volatile memory, memory that lasts only while the power is on (and thus would be lost after a restart)
Volatility (memory forensics)
, an open source memory forensics tool

Other uses

Volatility (finance), a measure of the risk in a financial instrument
Volatiles, the volatile compounds of magma (mostly water vapor) that affect the appearance and strength of volcanoes
Stochastic volatility, in the mathematical theory of probability
Pedersen index, a measure of electoral volatility in political party systems
One of the components of the set of phenomena known as
volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
Volatile Games
, a video games maker
Volatile (A Hero A Fake album), 2008
Volatile (The Lime Spiders album), 1988

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