How to Use aerosolize in a Sentence

aerosolize

verb
Definition of aerosolizenext
  • The entire plane can remove masks to eat and drink and aerosolize whatever’s in their lungs.
    — Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Virus particles can be found in feces and can aerosolize when the toilet is flushed.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 12 June 2020
  • So there are things that grow deep in the soil or grow in the insides of plants and not things that would generally be aerosolized just by wind.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Some diffusers, which act by aerosolizing the oil, release micro-droplets into the air that may collect on the fur of a pet cat.
    — Texas A&m University, Houston Chronicle, 16 Nov. 2019
  • They can also be easily aerosolized, such as by a toilet flush.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The question has to do with whether the new coronavirus spreads mostly by droplets that don’t linger for long in the air or also by tinier aerosolized particles.
    — Time, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The patient in that room was intubated and might have had treatments that aerosolized the virus and would have spread it throughout the whole unit yesterday.
    — Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Research shows that a toilet flush can aerosolize pathogens, spreading them to nearby surfaces.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • That time period only applies to the pathogens that were aerosolized in a lab setting for the study reported by the New England Journal of Medicine.
    — Mike Moffitt, Houston Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Each Juul pod, which contains the nicotine liquid that is aerosolized and inhaled, has the same amount of nicotine as is found in one to two packs of cigarettes.
    — Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Talking, especially loudly, and singing can aerosolize the virus.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Coughs and sneezes also produce aerosolized virus, smaller particles that float in the air far longer than droplets and that can also travel farther.
    — Thomas Perls, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2020
  • At about 27 percent the ethanol began to aerosolize, presumably freeing the guaiacol even further.
    — Jenna Gallegos, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • That's because the biggest issue with asbestos is breathing it in, and asbestos only gets aerosolized if something disrupts it.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 20 July 2018
  • Doroshow suggested the patient receive greater oxygen support from a high-flow nasal cannula, which would aerosolize the virus, requiring her to be moved to a private room.
    — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Evidence collection activities in the field have the potential to aerosolize powders, the CDC states.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 7 Apr. 2021
  • An older person with dementia, for example, might find the tight, face-covering mask confusing and try to yank it off, which would aerosolize virus into the room.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Legionella bacteria can be aerosolized through cooling towers, showers and hot tubs, the statement said.
    — Jessica Villagomez, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2019
  • All that bubbling, swirling and splashing can aerosolize fecal waste, sending tiny particles airborne.
    — cleveland, 17 June 2020
  • Some of the greatest risk arose when doctors and nurses were exposed to aerosolized virus through the use of CPAPs or other respiratory therapy devices.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Carfentanil aerosolized into a gas is suspected of being the weapon that Russians used to subdue Chechen terrorists who seized a Moscow theater and threatened to blow it up in 2002.
    — Dan Keating, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
  • What's more, ingredients in e-liquid can degrade or change in potentially harmful ways once they're aerosolized.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • One recent study from Yale University found that vanillin — an extract of the vanilla bean — transforms into chemicals called acetals when aerosolized.
    — NBC News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • It's called airborne contact dermatitis, occurs when plant resins aerosolize, and can be caused by sunflowers, ragweed, and goldenrod.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Intubation, which involves inserting a plastic tube into a patient’s windpipe, can lead to the virus becoming aerosolized, and more infectious to health care workers in the room, experts say.
    — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The units heat and cool reservoirs of water, and researchers suspected that as the device ventilated heat or pumped water to the blankets, tiny droplets became aerosolized and spread through the operating room, carrying microbes with them.
    — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2017
  • An in-room interaction that might once have lasted ten minutes—exposing me, and later my colleagues and other patients, to aerosolized coronavirus—is complete in just a few moments.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The current concern about nebulizers is that if they are used by a patient with a respiratory infection, the nebulizer could aerosolize droplets containing virus, allowing the virus to stay in the air longer.
    — The Conversation, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The findings, though preliminary, indicate that the devices—which aerosolize nicotine and contain no tobacco—may not be as safe as previously assumed.
    — Janine Wolf, Bloomberg.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Fires aerosolize pollutants, propelling chemicals and particulate matter into the atmosphere, which then falls as a kind of toxic snow.
    — WIRED, 19 Oct. 2022

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