Vaporizer vs. Atomizer — What's the Difference?

A device used to produce vapor from a substance.

A device, as on a perfume bottle, for breaking a liquid up into a fine spray of droplets.

A device with a heating element, used to vaporize a liquid.

A device, as in an e-cigarette, that uses heat to vaporize a liquid or to release volatile compounds from a solid; a vaporizer.

(medicine) A device with a heating element, used to vaporize a liquid solution with medicine. The produced vapor condensates into fine aerosols, forming a mist inside the device, to be inhaled by the patient for delivery of the medicine into the lungs.

An instrument for reducing a liquid to spray or vapor for disinfecting, cooling, medical use or perfume spraying.

One who, or that which, vaporizes, or converts into vapor.

One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

A dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine spray