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
- 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.
- Variant forms include: opake, opaque aëriform, aeriform (with and without dieresis) gasses, gases phosphoret, phosphuret (but always carburet) Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
- Yes, in strict propriety, for they can properly be called gasses only when brought to an aeriform state. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
- The growth that the incremental ratio materiality of aeriform investment invests is rapider.
- 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.
- a fiery, an aeriform, a pneumatical, and a nameless one, which latter is said to cause sensations: — κρᾶμα ἐκ τεττάρων, ἐκ ποιοῦ Lunheng
- Heat, therefore, does not rank as a fourth condition by the side of the solid, liquid and aeriform states, in the way that Fire ranks in the older conception by the side of Earth, Water and Air. Man or Matter
- The reversed currents are, then, arrested during their passage; and, in order to collect them, it becomes necessary to considerably diminish the gaseous pressure of the aeriform conductor interposed in the discharge; to increase its conductivity; or to open to the current a very resistant metallic derivation. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
- Humboldt extends this view to the case of earthquakes unaccompanied by eruptions; but I can hardly conceive it possible that the small quantity of aeriform fluids which then escape from the fissured ground can produce such remarkable effects. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- It is jotter batteries, cooperate it'fuse' jotter , explode at aeriform in the center.