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Aerodynamics

the science which treats of the force exerted by air when in motion.

AEROLITE or AEROLITH, a stone which falls from the air, or sky. The name is somewhat inappropriate, now that it is known that the connection of these stones with the air is but slight, they simply traversing it as, under the operation of gravity, they fall from the regions beyond to the earth. See ME- TEORITE.

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