-adjective 1. evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent.
2. tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive: a volatile political situation.
3. changeable; mercurial; flighty: a volatile disposition.
4. (of prices, values, etc.) tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly: volatile market conditions.
5. fleeting; transient: volatile beauty.
6. Computers. of or pertaining to storage that does not retain data when electrical power is turned off or fails.
7. able to fly or flying.
-noun
8. a volatile substance, as a gas or solvent.
RAM is a volatile Memory. But ROM is not volatile.
volatile will evaporate
volatile will evaporate
DRAM is a volatile memory
DRAM is a volatile memory
Non-volatile
ROM is non-volatile memory.
The prefix of volatile is "vol-".
DRAM is volatile.
A substance that evaporates easily is called volatile. Volatile substances have low boiling points and readily transition from a liquid to a gas at normal temperatures.
The PlayStation 2 memory cards have the non-volatile and not the volatile flash memory.
The higher the boiling point, the less volatile. And vice versa.