exhalable

English

Etymology

From exhale +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛksˈ(h)eɪləbəl/

Adjective

exhalable (comparative more exhalable, superlative most exhalable)

1. Capable of being exhaled or evaporated.
   • 1675, Robert Boyle, On the Mechanical Production of Electricity:

     the great rapidity , with which the wheels that serve to cut and polish diamonds must be moved , excites a great degree of heat in the stone ; whereby , perhaps , it loses its exhalable matter so plentifully

References

• “exhalable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.