ADJECTIVE
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characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
an airy apparition
physical rather than ethereal forms
figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away
aerial fancies - resembling air or having the form of air
How To Use aeriform In A Sentence
- It is jotter batteries, cooperate it'fuse' jotter , explode at aeriform in the center.
- With the help of these qualitative concepts we are now in a position to determine more clearly still the difference between the older and the modern conceptions: in particular the difference between the aeriform condition of matter, as we conceive of it to-day, and the element Air. Man or Matter
- Thus there is reason to describe also from the modern point of view the solid and liquid states as essentially 'cold', and the aeriform state as 'warm'. Man or Matter
- But aeriform matter still has density and weight, and this means that matter in this state combines the two opposing qualities. Man or Matter
- 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. The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
- figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away
- On page 214 he describes and figures an apparatus for taking the galvano-electric spark into fluid and aeriform substances. Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884
- We know that this characteristic of matter diminishes gradually with its transition from the solid to the liquid and aeriform states. Man or Matter
- It is jotter batteries, cooperate it'fuse' jotter , explode at aeriform in the center.
- He informed us all about internal fires and tertiary formations; about äeriforms, fluidiforms, and solidiforms; about quartz and marl; about schist and schorl; about gypsum and trap; about talc and calc; about blende and horn-blende; about mica-slate and pudding-stone; about cyanite and lepidolite; about hematite and tremolite; about antimony and calcedony; about manganese and whatever you please. Tales.