This is the 12216th most frequent French word.
volatiles
Birds or poultry.
Here, 'volatiles' refers to fowl or birds, which is the primary zoological use of the word.
Les oiseaux, ces volatiles gracieux, volent dans le ciel au-dessus de nous.
Birds, those graceful fowl, fly in the sky above us.
In this case, 'volatile' is used to describe instability or rapid changeability in a figurative sense, related to dynamics or fluctuations.
La situation économique actuelle est extrêmement volatile.
The current economic situation is extremely unstable.
Here, 'volatiles' refers to the property of substances that evaporate quickly, indicating a physical characteristic relevant in chemistry.