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aeriform

[air-uh-fawrm, ey-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

Much light was evolved, and a great flame appeared at the negative pole; on changing the direction of the current, "aeriform globules, which inflamed in the air, rose through the potash."

From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir

Write you always as it is given you,_ be it in the solid, in the aeriform, or whatsoever way.

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

Indeed the experiences of M. Cagniard de Latour have shown that gases may, under pressure, acquire the density of liquids while retaining the aeriform state, provided the temperature continues extremely high.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer




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