James Cook (1728-1779) Famous For: Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. An English captain who circumnavigated around the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. He made contact with the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, New Zealand, and around the Indian Ocean back to the Atlantic. He died while serving the Crown in Hawaii.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection [DEP] relies on laboratory tests called EPH [Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons] and VPH [Volatile Petroleum Hydrocarbons] to test for the presence of gasoline or fuel oil in drinking water.
Volatile oil, also known as essential oil, an oil derived from plants with aromatic compounds used in cosmetics and flavoring Volatile acidity, a term used in winemaking to indicate an unacceptably high level of acid or vinegar and baking soda. In computer science: Volatile variables, variables that can be changed by an external process