Figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

What is the cause of bodies being either solid, liquid, or aeriform?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference

The secretion of the liver (bile) is fluidform; that of the lungs is aeriform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

On page 214 he describes and figures an apparatus for taking the galvano-electric spark into fluid and aeriform substances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference

But aeriform matter still has density and weight, and this means that matter in this state combines the two opposing qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

We know that this characteristic of matter diminishes gradually with its transition from the solid to the liquid and aeriform states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

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'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Solids, at certain temperatures, are converted into liquids; and liquids, in like manner, when heated to certain degrees, become aeriform fluids or gases.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 575, November 10, 1832] Reference

Through this process matter passes over from the aeriform condition into that of numerous separate, characteristically structured solid bodies - the starch grains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Liquid and aeriform envelopes of the solid surface of our planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

The Dial too, it is all spirit-like, aeriform, aurora-borealis like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I] Reference

Anaximander gives it an aeriform constitution, Heraclitus describes it as a fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

The solid surface of the earth has two envelopes, one liquid, and the other aeriform.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

The same object at one moment may be liquid; at the next moment solid; at the next aeriform.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference

Write you always as it is given you, be it in the solid, in the aeriform, or whatsoever way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I]

Consider, in the first place, the physical state of the atmosphere, its very aeriform condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Chemistry] Reference

Yes, in strict propriety, for they can properly be called gasses only when brought to an aeriform state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

Reflect now on the importance of the circumstance, that this compound of oxygen and carbon is aeriform, and consider what.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Chemistry] Reference

Everywhere, yet nowhere: seen only in its works, this too is a thing aeriform, invisible; or if you will, mystic and miraculous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference

Let us, therefore, as a preliminary to our present inquiry, ascertain what is the composition of this aeriform matter we call air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Chemistry] Reference

Variant forms include: opake, opaque aëriform, aeriform (with and without dieresis) gasses, gases phosphoret, phosphuret (but always carburet).    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

It transmits itself on the atmospheric air, on the sun's rays (by Hearing and by Vision); it is a thing aeriform, impalpable, of quite spiritual sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference

The name of gas is given to any fluid capable of existing constantly in an aeriform state, under the pressure and at the temperature of the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

Almost every solid substance, when slowly deposited from a liquid or aeriform condition, assumes a definite symmetrical shape which is peculiar to the substance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Chemistry] Reference

The permanently aeriform state of oxygen will appear still more remarkable when we consider how largely it enters into the composition of the solid crust of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Chemistry] Reference

These products, as is well known, are perfectly colorless and transparent aeriform substances, wholly without odor or taste, and entirely devoid of every active quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Chemistry] Reference

But in the present accurate state of our knov/lcdge relative to aeriform gases, it is too little to say and prove that the cause of these various flames is hydrogenous gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan] Reference

Oxygen gas, like all other forms of aeriform matter, tends to expand, and can be prevented from obeying this natural tendency only by enclosing it in an air-tight receiver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Chemistry] Reference

As a rule the arteries are empty after death, and Praxagoras believed that they were filled with an aeriform fluid, a sort of pneuma, which was responsible for their pulsation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference

It is then a perfectly colorless and transparent gas, and so persistently does it retain its aeriform condition that it cannot be reduced to the liquid state by pressure alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Chemistry] Reference

'element' in this older sense and the modern view of the different states of material aggregation, solid, liquid, aeriform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

"Almost every known body in nature is susceptible of three several states of existence, -- the solid, the liquid, the aeriform.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference

All bodies are either solid, liquid, or aeriform.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference

G Gasi gas, elaftic fluid, aeriform fluid. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of the Art of Dyeing] Reference

Bodies, solid, fluid, and aeriform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

A gas, that is, to an aeriform body. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference