Aerosol

Definitions: Aerosol

Aerosol

Noun

1. A cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas.

2. A dispenser that forces a liquid out as a fine spray when a button is pressed.

Date "aerosol" was first used: 1923. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Aerosol

Domain	Definitions
Engineering & Technology	A container equipped with a dispensing valve. . . to retain the compressed liquefied gas that acts as the propelling agent for the discharge of the contents through the valve. Source: European Union. (references)
Environment	1. Small droplets or particles suspended in the atmosphere, typically containing sulfur. They are usually emitted naturally (e.g. in volcanic eruptions) and as the result of anthropogenic (human) activities such as burning fossil fuels. 2. The pressurized gas used to propel substances out of a container. (references)
	A mixture of microscopic solid or liquid particles in a gaseous medium. Smoke, haze, and fog are aerosol examples. (references)
	A finely divided material suspended in air or other gaseous environment. (references)
	Dispersion in which the exterior phase is air or another gas and the interior phase consists of small suspended particles in a solid or liquid form ; a suspension of very fine liquid and solid particles in the air as mist or fog ; also refers to household bombs for dispensing cosmetics, soap, foam, etc. The propellant in the applicator is usually chlorofluorocarbon, a known pollutant. Source: European Union. (references)
Geography	The long-period comets with periods approaching one million years and -- near a value of 1. Source: European Union. (references)
Geological	Fine liquid or solid particles suspended in the atmosphere. Aerosols resulting from volcanic eruptions are tiny droplets of sulfuric acid -- sulfur dioxide that has picked up oxygen and water. (Teacher's Packet). (references)
Health	A solution of a drug which can be atomized into a fine mist for inhalation therapy. (references)
Math	A gaseous suspension of fine particles. (references)
Medicine	A suspension of particles in airborne water droplets. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. A suspension of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles in air or gas, as smoke, fog, or mist b. Particles, solid or liquid, suspended in air c. A sol in which the dispersion medium is a gas (usually air) and the dispersed or colloidal phase consists of solid particles or liquiddroplets, e.g., mist, haze, most smoke, and some fog e.g., mist, haze, most smoke, and some fog. (references)
	Trade name of strong wetting agent based on sulfonated bi-carboxy-acidesters. (references)
Science	A collection of fine particles of a solid or a liquid suspended in a gas, such as air and smog. (references)
	Particles of liquid or solid dispersed as a suspension in gas. (references)
Solar	Excluding weather and clouds, any small particle that tends to stay in the air, such as smoke, dust, salt, and pollen. (references)
Weather	Particulate matter, solid or liquid, larger than a molecule but small enough to remain suspended in the atmosphere. Natural sources include salt particles from sea spray, dust and clay particles as a result of weathering of rocks, both of which are carried upward by the wind. Aerosols can also originate as a result of human activities and are often considered pollutants. Aerosols are important in the atmosphere as nuclei for the condensation of water droplets and ice crystals, as participants in various chemical cycles, and as absorbers and scatters of solar radiation, thereby influencing the radiation budget of the Earth's climate system. See climate, particulate matter, sulfate aerosols. (references)
	Particulate material, other than water or ice, in the atmosphere ranging in size from approximately 10x-3 to larger than 10x2 �m in radius. Aerosols are important in the atmosphere as nuclei for the condensation of water droplets and ice crystals, as participants in various chemical cycles, and as absorbers and scatterers of solar radiation, thereby influencing the radiation budget of the earth-atmosphere system, which in turn influences the climate on the surface of the Earth. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Aerosol

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Aerosols are tiny particles suspended in the air. Some occur naturally, originating from volcanoes, dust storms, forest and grassland fires, living vegetation, and sea spray. Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels and the alteration of natural surface cover, also generate aerosols. Averaged over the globe, aerosols made by human activities currently account for about 10 percent of the total amount of aerosols in our atmosphere.

Scientists have much to learn about the way aerosols affect regional and global climate. They are unsure whether aerosols are warming or cooling our planet.

Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Aerosols/

See:

Air pollution
Biological warfare
Global warming
Radiological weapon

Colloquially, an aerosol (short for aerosol spray) is a canister holding a liquid under pressure from a compressed gas. When a valve is opened, the liquid is forced out of a small hole and emerges as a mist. Typical liquids dispensed in this way are deodorants and paints. An atomiser is a similar device that is pressurised by a hand-operated pump rather than by stored gas.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aerosol."

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Synonyms: Aerosol

Synonyms: aerosol bomb (n), aerosol can (n), aerosol container (n), spray can (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Aerosol

English words defined with "aerosol": aerosol bomb, aerosol can, aerosol container, aerosolize ♦ CFC, Chemical Mace, chlorofluorocarbon ♦ hair gel, hair mousse ♦ Mace, mousse. (references)

Specialty definitions using "aerosol": Acid Aerosol, Aerosol Optical Depth, AUTOMOBILE DETAILER ♦ Beclomethasone ♦ Chlamydiales, Chlorinated Solvent, CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS, condensation nucleus counter, condensation-nuclei counter ♦ Drop Size Distribution ♦ FLUOROCARBON GASES ♦ Influenza A Virus, Influenza A Virus, Human ♦ light extinction budget ♦ Mount Pinatubo ♦ natural visibility conditions, Nebulizers and Vaporizers ♦ Optical Depth ♦ Particulate matter, Povidone-Iodine, Procaterol ♦ RESPIRATORY THERAPIST, RESPIRATORY-THERAPY AIDE ♦ secondary aerosols, Stratospheric Aerosol & Gas Experiment, sulfate aerosol, Sulfate aerosols ♦ Vinyl Chloride. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Aerosol" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (aerosol), Czech (aerosol), Danish (aerosol), German (aerosol), Italian (aerosol), Portuguese (aerosol), Serbo-Croatian (aerosol), Spanish (aerosol), Swedish (aerosol), Turkish (aerosol).

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Modern Usage: Aerosol

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Uh, perhaps you can help me? I'm looking for a love-potion aerosol, that I can spray on a certain Penthouse Pet, to obtain her total submission. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

If the rocket renders it aerosol, it could take out the entire city of people. (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Hey Mr. Science Guy don't spray that aerosol in my eye for for I I don't really wanna die. I'm a noble rabbit (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

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Commercial Usage: Aerosol

Domain	Title
References	The 2001 Report on Household Aerosol Fresheners: World Market Segmentation by City (reference) The World Market for Mechano-Therapy Appliances, Massage Apparatus, Psychological Aptitude-Testing Apparatus, Ozone Therapy, Oxygen Therapy, Aerosol Therapy, Artificial Respiration, and Other Therapeutic Respiration Apparatus: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Plan for a Research Program on Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Climate Change (reference) Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City (reference) Aerosol Measurement (reference) Aerosol Measurement: Principles, Techniques, and Applications, 2nd Edition (reference) Aerosol Particle Size Analysis: Good Calibration Practices (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Aerosol Science And Technology (reference) Journal Of Aerosol Medicine (reference) Journal Of Aerosol Science (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Aerosol Gray Machine [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Bostik 10120 Aerosol Dri-Cote (reference) Bostik 10220 Aerosol Top-Cote (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
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Image Slideshow: Aerosol

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Photo Album: Aerosol

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The aerosol generators or "fogging machines" range from small hand-held backpack units, to units that fit onto all terrain vehicles, as well as large truck mounted units.Credit: CDC.		Aerosol Particle Analyzer at the ERC.Credit: NASA.
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Sounds Captioned with "Aerosol".

Play	Caption
	Air hissing; losing air pressure; the sound of an aerosol can letting out its contents.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Aerosol

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This is called aerosol or airborne transmission. (references)
		Ribavirin aerosol may be used in the treatment of some patients with severe disease. (references)
		Tobramycin by aerosol form is easier and less expensive to administer than by intravenous injection. (references)
Business		The most common of these are the CFCs, Halons, HBFCs, HCFCs and individual products such as carbon tetrachloride and 1,1,1 tri-chloroethane, which have been used for refrigeration, foam blowing, fire fighting, aerosol sprays, and degreasing. (references)
Political Economy	DENMARK	Denmark recently finalized a regulation, which will phase out certain industrial greenhouse gases, including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6). The Danish government will phase out import, sale, and use of these gases and new products containing them beginning in 2002, with a complete ban in effect by January 1, 2006. There are exemptions for certain products, including small refrigerating systems containing HFCs, medical aerosol sprays, vaccine coolers, and lab equipment, and all production for export is exempt. (references)
Trade	Ukraine	The project targets priority consumption phaseout activities in the refrigeration, aerosol, solvent, and halon sectors. (references)
	Israel	An aerosol container should indicate the net quantity weight unit for semi-solid or powder products, and volume unit for liquids. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Aerosol

"Aerosol" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Aerosol" is used about 133 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.74%	126	28,512
Lexical Verb (base form)	3.01%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.75%	1	339,140
Noun (proper)	0.75%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	0.75%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	133	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Aerosol

Expressions using "aerosol": aerosol bomb ♦ aerosol can ♦ aerosol container ♦ aerosol layer ♦ Aerosol Propellants ♦ Nasalide Nasal Aerosol. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "aerosol": aerosol-induced.
	Ending with "aerosol": non-aerosol.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aerosol

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
aerosol	1,194
aerosol shoes	357
aerosol can	56
aerosol paint	26
aerosol sandal	23
aerosol filling	16
aerosol coupon	15
aerosol valve	15
aerosol art	12
aerosol filling machine	11
aerosol shoes store	11
aerosol dispenser	9
aerosol packaging	8
aerosol shoes catalog	8
aerosol spray	8
albuterol inhalation aerosol	8
aerosol manufacturer	8
aerosol shoes woman	7
aerosol container	7
aerosol spray paint	6
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Modern Translations: Aerosol

Language		Translations for "aerosol"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		aerosol. (various references)

Arabic		‏الهباء الجوي (dust). (various references)

Bulgarian		аерозол. (various references)

Chinese		湿剂. (various references)

Czech		aerosol. (various references)

Danish		aerosol. (various references)

Dutch		spuitbus (aerosol bomb, aerosol container, sleeve, sprue bush), aërosol. (various references)

Farsi		تعلیق مایع ،جسم بصورت گردوگازدرهوا. (various references)

Finnish		aerosoli, hiukkanen (corpuscle, grain, particle, particles, particulate matter). (various references)

French		aérosol. (various references)

German		Aerosol. (various references)

Greek		αεροζόλ (aerosol spray). (various references)

Hebrew		מרסס (atomizer, diffuser, injector, pulverizer, spray, sprayer), תרסיס (spray). (various references)

Hungarian		aeroszol. (various references)

Italian		aerosol. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		エール大学 (acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aerobic dancing, aerobicise, aerobics, aerodynamics, aerogram, aid, AIDS, AIDS virus, air, air bag, air brake, air breathing engine, air cargo, air check, air circulating system, air cleaner, air compressor, air conditioner, air conditioning, air curtain, air cushion, air dome, air door, air force, air girl, air gun, air hostess, air mail, air mattress, air pad, air pageant, air people, air pocket, air pot, air pump, air rifle, air right, air service, air shoot, air shuttle, air sick, air suspension, air terminal, air towel, airborne, airbrush, Airbus, airline, airport, airport tax, airsick bag, airsickness, airway, alias, alien, Edam cheese, eight, eight beat, exercising with aerobics, hit point, home page, HP, on-air monitor, stewardess, Yale University). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		エアロゾル , エアゾール . (various references)

Korean		연무질. (various references)

Pig Latin		aerosolay

Portuguese		aerossol, aerosol. (various references)

Russian		аэрозоль (spray). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		aerosol, magla (brume, fog), dim (smoke). (various references)

Spanish		aerosol. (various references)

Swedish		aerosol. (various references)

Turkish		aerosol. (various references)

Ukranian		аерозоль. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Aerosol

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	aero-. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Aerosol

Derivations
	Words beginning with "aerosol": aerosolization, aerosolizations, aerosolize, aerosolized, aerosolizes, aerosolizing, aerosols. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Aerosol" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aereos, aeresol, Aeros, aerosal, aerosil, aersol, arasol, Argostoli, Autosol, Ieprosula, Serocold. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Aerosol"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "aerosol" (pronounced e"rusÄ'l)
5	-r u s Ä' l	hydrosol.
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Anagrams: Aerosol

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: roseola.
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-o-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: looser.
	-2 letters: aloes, arles, arose, earls, lares, laser, lears, loose, lores, loser, oleos, orals, orles, rales, reals, roles, roose, seral, solar, sorel.
	-3 letters: aero, ales, aloe, also, ares, arse, earl, ears, eras, eros, lars, lase, lear, leas, loos, lore, lose, oars, olea, oleo, oles, oral, ores, orle, osar, rale, rase, real, roes, role, rose, sale, seal, sear, sera, sloe, soar, sola, sole, solo, sora, sore.
	-4 letters: ale, als, are, ars, ear, els, era, ers, lar, las, lea, loo, oar, oes, ole, ora, ore, ors, ose, ras, res, roe, sae, sal, sea, sel, ser, sol.
	-5 letters: ae, al, ar, as, el, er, es, la, lo, oe, or, os, re, so.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-o-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: aerosols, roseolar, roseolas, saleroom, seafloor.
	+2 letters: aerofoils, desolator, erosional, floorages, ovarioles, overloads, salerooms, salesroom, seafloors, waterloos, zoolaters.
	+3 letters: aerologies, aerosolize, agrologies, allotropes, alongshore, areologies, astrologer, blastopore, carpoolers, chloralose, desolators, doorplates, earlywoods, flavorsome, hollowares, lampooners, logorrheas, monolayers, olecranons, oleographs, orthoclase, overlabors, salesrooms, tolerators, toolmakers, zoolatries.
	+4 letters: acropolises, aerosolized, aerosolizes, aldosterone, allotropies, apologizers, arenicolous, astrologers, astrologies, blastopores, blastospore, bloodstream, chloralosed, chloraloses, collarbones, colportages, corollaries, coromandels, correlators, defoliators, drosophilae, erosionally, flameproofs, floodwaters, foamflowers, footballers, hollowwares, karyologies, laparoscope, lepromatous, meliorators, nonpersonal, orthoclases, overarousal, overzealous, percolators, peroxisomal, phraseology, polariscope, polysorbate, portabellos, radiologies, relocations, scolopendra, serological, sockdolager, tolerations, watercolors, waterfloods, woodlanders.
	+5 letters: aeroembolism, aerosolizing, ailurophobes, aldosterones, allelomorphs, ameliorators, archeologies, archeologist, bachelordoms, blastospores, bloodstreams, borosilicate, broomballers, cardiologies, chocolatiers, coleopterans, collaborates, conversional, correlations, courageously, craniologies, deflorations, demodulators, dishonorable, dorsolateral, dorsoventral, elaborations, enterostomal, explorations, floorwalkers, foolhardiest, footlamberts, graphologies, haloperidols, heliolatrous, holographers, holographies, iconolatries, kilocalories, laboratories, lampooneries, laparoscopes, laparotomies, laryngoscope, leatherwoods, longshoreman, melanophores, meliorations, mononuclears, nomenclators, nonsteroidal, nontemporals, obliterators, ochlocracies, operatorless, organologies, osmolarities, outrageously, overarousals, overvoltages, papyrologies, percolations, petrodollars, polariscopes, polysorbates, porcelaneous, praxeologies, processional, proconsulate, professional, professorial, protoplanets, rhabdocoeles, schoolmaster, scolopendras, sockdolagers, somatopleure, spermatozoal, sternocostal, stromatolite, teratologies, teratologist, urbanologies, watercoolers, zooplankters.
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