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A device that turns liquid into a fine mist so your perfume can enter a room before you do.
means A device that breaks a liquid into a fine spray, usually using air pressure or a pump mechanism.
from Rooted in 'atom,' from Greek 'atomos' meaning 'uncuttable' — the smallest conceivable particle. When 19th-century science started imagining matter in tiny indivisible units, inventors borrowed the word for devices that broke liquid into particles small enough to float on air. The atomizer took its name directly from that idea of fragmenting something into its tiniest possible parts — the perfume bottle inherited a word coined in the spirit of physics.
- origin
- from Greek atomos, meaning indivisible
- mechanism
- uses air pressure, not heat, to disperse liquid
- fun fact
- early versions were hand-pumped, now mostly electric
- beyond perfume
- used in asthma inhalers and paint sprayers too