Air Shower

Air shower can refer to the following terms:

  • Air shower (physics), the shower of particles produced when a high energy cosmic ray hits an atom high in the atmosphere
  • Air shower (room), a specialized antechamber of a cleanroom

Famous quotes containing the words air and/or shower:

    “Oh none too soon through the air white and dry
    Will the clear announcer’s voice
    Beat like a dove, and you and I

    From the heart’s anarch and responsible town
    Return by subway-mouth to life again,
    Bearing the morning papers,”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    “Night sank: like flakes of silver fire
    The stars in one great shower came down;”
    —John Davidson (1857–1909)