[Frater EIE]

Is it possible for a salt to become "volatized"? For instance, can, say, potassium carbonate form a complex compound with more volatile substances, so that it does not recrystallize when the solution is evaporated off, but actually comes over with the solution in a distillation?

[Stepan]

Is it possible for a salt to become "volatized"? For instance, can, say, potassium carbonate form a complex compound with more volatile substances, so that it does not recrystallize when the solution is evaporated off, but actually comes over with the solution in a distillation?

Potassium Carbonate will "evaporate" and travel in the air as a fine mist, when droplets of water evaporate, and residual salt forms fine micro crystals suspended in air. 

At the same time, some salts do sublimate, let say Ammonia Chloride.

[408]

Volatility is a function of temperature.  Heat sodium chloride to 900C and you can easily smell it. 

Add hexafluoroacetone to a solution of TM salts, and the metal complex with hexafluoroacetonate will be very volatile.

Stepan: aerosols and dusts are not examples of things in a gaseous phase!

[Stepan]

Volatility is a function of temperature.  Heat sodium chloride to 900C and you can easily smell it. 

Add hexafluoroacetone to a solution of TM salts, and the metal complex with hexafluoroacetonate will be very volatile.

Stepan: aerosols and dusts are not examples of things in a gaseous phase!

Thank you 408. In the question, the word "volatized" was put in question marks, which assumes different mechanisms. Also, your second example is not true evaporation.