Volatility

• 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), degree of variation over time • 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 • Volatile (horse), a racehorse