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the ghost of liquids, escaping upward to tell everyone exactly where you spilled.
means Pungent gases, vapors, or smoke given off by something — often a chemical, fuel, or burning substance — that you can smell and that may be harmful.
from From the Latin 'fumus,' meaning smoke or steam, which drifted into Old French as 'fum' before settling into English. The same root smolders inside 'perfume' (literally 'through smoke,' from substances burned to scent the air) and 'fumigate.' To 'fume' with anger came later, a vivid stretch of the same image — a person figuratively giving off smoke, hot and visible from across the room.
- running on
- vapor in tank propels cars after gauge hits empty
- deadly drift
- carbon monoxide is invisible, odorless, and silently lethal
- perfume kin
- smell only happens when molecules go airborne first
- hatter's curse
- mercury fumes drove mad as a hatter literal
- flammable warning
- gasoline ignites from vapors, not the liquid itself
great smog of london — killed approximately 12,000 people in december 1952 over 5 days
bhopal gas disaster — methyl isocyanate fumes killed 15,000-25,000 in bhopal, india in 1984