Chemicals - A Must Know Question!

Chemicals - A Must Know Question!It's a common question to a chemistry student or adult. Why does gas have the term 'volatile' in Chemistry? It is defined as having an easily-sparked reaction. Gas is usually identified by its color and other physical characteristics, and this is actually the way chemistry students define volatile in their lecture.Volatile gas is the gas that has the possibility of escaping from its container. The atoms in this gas are highly mobile. These atoms can easily move from place to place. For example, oxygen in the air is a volatile gas because the oxygen molecules are highly mobile.The other reason is that oxygen in an atmosphere contains carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide has the tendency to mix with nitrogen to form nitrogen dioxide, which is a highly flammable gas.If the chemical is the combination of a gaseous and an acid, you can say that it is a volatile liquid. Like, water can only exist in a gaseous state. All the other chemical elements are commonl y defined as non-volatile liquids.So, what exactly is a volatile chemical? A volatile is a chemical substance that contains the possibility of becoming volatile. This chemical has been designed to be extremely unstable.So, why do we still use the term 'volatile'? Is it because there is something special about volatile in chemistry? Well, actually this is because the term 'volatile' was used to describe the volatile property of the carbonated drink. In the olden days, alcoholic drinks were very dry and thus they had a tendency to turn into a vapor form.In order to preserve the properties of these drinks, the manufacturers made them into the dryer form, which created the advantage of being less viscous. Many people did not like the fact that they were much less viscous, and they called them as a 'vapor' drinks. The word 'volatile' however was reserved for the alcoholic drink.