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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aerosol
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
can
▪ Female speaker I was looking for drugs and walking over the aerosol cans.
▪ There are three reagents, conveniently supplied in aerosol cans.
▪ And the manufacture of aerosol cans takes considerable resources and energy.
▪ The floor was a carpet of aerosol cans, and crumpled bags, and tins of lager.
spray
▪ When I kill cockroaches using an aerosol spray, they invariably die belly-up.
▪ If neither solution is practical, try burning a joss-stick or invest in a large aerosol spray.
▪ Fly produced an aerosol spray and cleaned the clear glass lenses for me.
■ VERB
use
▪ When I kill cockroaches using an aerosol spray, they invariably die belly-up.
▪ I need hairspray, but I don't like hair that looks stiff and I don't like to use aerosols.
▪ Do not use aerosols or talcum powder.
▪ Drink lots of water. Use an aerosol freshener.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Had these people got bored with making cars and stereos and aerosols? were they going to start making history?
▪ He'd choked on his own vomit after a session of sniffing aerosols.
▪ History 2, greenhouse plus aerosol forcing.
▪ I need hairspray, but I don't like hair that looks stiff and I don't like to use aerosols.
▪ She didn't know whether or not he was sniffing but when I searched his room I found empty aerosols.
▪ The aerosol device is unlikely to have been the cause.
▪ The aerosol in a bottle of hair spray can induce a fast, powerful high.
▪ The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aerosol

1919, from aero- "air" + first syllable in solution. A term in physics; modern commercial application is from 1940s.

Wiktionary
aerosol

n. 1 A liquid or solid composed of finely divided particles suspended in a gaseous medium. 2 A gaseous or airborne cloud of particulate matter, either as a solid, liquid, or gas, which forces another substance out of a spray can. 3 (context physics English) 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.

WordNet
aerosol
  1. n. 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 [syn: aerosol container, aerosol can, aerosol bomb, spray can]

Wikipedia
Aerosol

Aerosol science covers generation and removal of aerosols, technological application of aerosols, effects of aerosols on the environment and people, and a wide variety of other topics.

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Usage examples of "aerosol".

At least four hundred kilograms of anthrax, prepared in dry form for use as an aerosol, would be required for ten warheads.

If four particles of an agent in a given volume of air killed at least 50 percent of the monkeys exposed to an aerosol, we could assume that ten particles would have an equally lethal effect on human beings.

Eventually someone hit on the idea of breeding typhus in the labs and spraying it in an aerosol form from airplanes.

When we exposed monkeys to an aerosol of the highly virulent India-1, they contracted smallpox within one to five days.

Plague can be grown easily in a wide range of temperatures and media, and we eventually developed a plague weapon capable of surviving in an aerosol while maintaining its killing capacity.

The plague vaccine was found to be ineffective against aerosol dissemination in animal studies.

He strapped on his Smith and Wesson, shrugged into his jacket and put the aerosol can in one pocket and the hooded torch in the other.

The shadow that had loomed behind him resolved itself into the unmistakable form of van Effen, whose right hand curved round and held the aerosol can an inch or two from the .

The man was just disappearing from sight when van Effen crossed to the other man on the river missile site, his hand round the burgundy Yves Saint-Laurent aerosol with the special fragrance.

His keen eyes detected slight aerosol droplets, revealed in a shaft of sunlight viewed against shade.

He allowed the others to dip their fingers in it when cool and use it to wipe their skins to relieve the intolerable itching caused by the aerosol rain from the trees.

Bogaert had felled most of the closest trees, but the slight drift of the aerosol out of the forest still brought enough enzyme to promote the destruction of most of their garments.

Pakistan has been producing and testing, on an experimental basis, a wide range of odd drugs, both amphetamines and narcotics, in pill, liquid, and aerosol form.

An aerosol version of the sedative will be used initially to stupefy the populations of Istanbul and Ankara.

Show me where the label for the aerosol version is different from the label for the pills.