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a liquid weaponized into a fine, willing mist by sheer pressure and ambition
means to scatter or disperse a liquid in fine droplets, or the cloud of droplets so produced.
from From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, related to forms like sprayen — to sprinkle or burst forth — part of a Germanic family of words for spattering and bursting. The 'branch or twig' sense of spray (as in a spray of flowers) is a separate, older English word of uncertain origin, possibly linked to 'sprig'; the two have lived under one spelling for centuries.
first patentperfume atomizers predate aerosol cans by decades
propellant pastold sprays used CFCs that punched the ozone
droplet sizefiner mist means slower fall, longer hang
sea sprayflings ocean salt high into the atmosphere
pepper versionderived from capsaicin, the chili pepper's burn