Difference between Explosive and Volatile

What is the difference between Explosive and Volatile?

Explosive as an adjective is with the capability to, or likely to, explode. while Volatile as an adjective is evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.

Explosive

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Explosive substance.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: With the capability to, or likely to, explode. Having the character of an explosion. Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.

Example sentence: If you win the turnover battle and the explosive play battle in the same game, you win it 98 percent of the time. Now, can you win it with only winning one and losing one? Sure, but if you lose both of 'em, you only win 2 percent of the games where that occurrence happens.

Volatile

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.(informal) explosive.variable or erratic.fickle.temporary or ephemeral.potentially violent.having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.

Example sentence: People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

We hope you now know whether to use Explosive or Volatile in your sentence.

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