aerosol
IPA: ˈɛrʌsɑɫ
noun
- A mixture of fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium.
- An aerosol can.
- The payload (e.g. insecticide, paint, oil, cosmetics) and propellant contained by an aerosol can.
- (physics) A colloidal system in which the dispersed phase is composed of either solid or liquid particles and in which the dispersal medium is some gas, usually air.
verb
- (transitive) To spray with an aerosol.
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Examples of "aerosol" in Sentences
- Chances are, it's the differntial in aerosol use from day to day.
- Expect it to be on offer in aerosol form by 2012, combined with a warm cookie scent.
- Now add jet fuel (basically kerosene) into it, turned into an aerosol from a catastrophic impact.
- It has risen sharply in the 1990s concurrently with the dramatic increase in Chinese aerosol emissions.
- "And it is the first time we have gotten global long-term aerosol information over land to go with information already available on aerosol measurements over the world's oceans."
- To disseminate the biological agents, the Fort Detrick scientists hid them in aerosol spray systems inside fountain pens, walking sticks, light bulbs and even in the exhaust pipes of a 1953 Mercury.
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