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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
aerosolize . - adjective
Dispersed as anaerosol ;particulate .
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- adjective in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas
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Examples
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The key here seems to be "aerosolized" lead, usually lead carbonate.
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The key here seems to be "aerosolized" lead, usually lead carbonate.
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The crime was especially terrifying because the anthrax -- a sophisticated, "aerosolized" powder -- escaped from the envelopes, spread through parts of the nation's mail system and contaminated an entire Senate office building.
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Experts also stress, moreover, how difficult it is to turn a pathogen into a bioweapons agent like the "aerosolized" anthrax sent through the U.S. mail system in October.
In The Germ Labs 2007
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At a Tracy City Council meeting on January 2, Tracy Press reported Larry Sedlacek, Deputy Associate Director of Operations in the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's Defense and Nuclear Technologies Group, as saying that tritium could be used in tests that would be "aerosolized" after test blasts.
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If dispersants are aerosolized that is a bad thing as well.
Jerry Cope: NASA Data Strengthens Reports of Toxic Rain on the Gulf Coast From BP Spill Jerry Cope 2011
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We banned tetraethyl lead in gasoline because it's toxic and it was aerosolized as lead carbonate in emission products.
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We banned tetraethyl lead in gasoline because it's toxic and it was aerosolized as lead carbonate in emission products.
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At sunset on some parts of the planet, these puffs of aerosolized pollutant would glow a dramatic red, like the skies in Blade Runner.
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If dispersants are aerosolized that is a bad thing as well.
Jerry Cope: NASA Data Strengthens Reports of Toxic Rain on the Gulf Coast From BP Spill Jerry Cope 2011
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