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aeriform

[air-uh-fawrm, ay-eer-] / ˈɛər əˌfɔrm, eɪˈɪər- /


ADJECTIVE
gaseous
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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

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 M. M. Pattison Muir

The Dial too, it is all spirit-like, aeriform, aurora-borealis like.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle

The water absorbed by the plant evaporating in an aeriform state leaves the saline and other mineral constituents within it.

From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Justus, Freiherr von Liebig




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