aeriform

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These aeriform songs rarely involve drums, which makes them feel timeless, at least in the short term.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

Here, the aeriform melodies at his back feel so beautiful, the brutality of his words vanishes in the breeze.

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2022

On page 214 he describes and figures an apparatus for taking the galvano-electric spark into fluid and aeriform substances.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various

We know that this characteristic of matter diminishes gradually with its transition from the solid to the liquid and aeriform states.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst

Arguing thus, Priestley, of course, named the new aeriform substance dephlogisticated air, and thought of it as ordinary air deprived of some, or it might be all, of its phlogiston.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison