Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
aerosolise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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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And this is pretty much how my weekend started - except the car was a pushbike and I reckon that I inhaled more than my fair share of aerosolised blood.
The Weekend Starts Here « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Four guys sitting around with flip chart & pens discussing prevention of & countermeasures for an aerosolised chemical weapon attack at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day.
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Of even greater concern, is that 100 per cent of the depleted uranium in bombs and missiles is aerosolised upon impact and immediately released into the atmosphere.
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However, depleted uranium is also radiologically hazardous, as it spontaneously burns on impact, creating tiny aerosolised glass particles which are small enough to be inhaled.
Think Progress » Bush Knew 10 Marines Had Died Prior To Rose Garden Remarks, Didn’t Mention It 2005
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In bullets and cannon shells, the amount aerosolised is 40-70 per cent, leaving pieces and unexploded shells in the environment, to provide new sources of radioactive dust and contamination of the groundwater from dissolved depleted uranium metal long after the battles are over, as reported in a 2003 report by the UN Environmental Program on Yugoslavia.
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Dr Liggett said: "Based on our research we think that the best drugs wold be chemical modifications of bitter compounds which would be aerosolised and then inhaled into the lungs in an inhaler."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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People become infected when they inhale legionella bacteria which have been released into the air in aerosolised form from a contaminated source.
BBC Ouch! Blog 2010
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People become infected when they inhale legionella bacteria which have been released into the air in aerosolised form from a contaminated source.
BBC News - Home 2010
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When these spores are aerosolised the bacterium can be very effectively distributed.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Talecris was also developing an aerosolised formulation of AAT.
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