aerosol vs fog

aerosol and fog both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
aerosol	Yes	No	No	No
fog	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, fog is a hyponym of aerosol; that is, fog is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than aerosol:

Other hyponyms of aerosol include haze, fume, smoke.

aerosol (noun)	fog (noun)
a dispenser that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray (usually by means of a propellant gas)	confusion characterized by lack of clarity
a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas	droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
	an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

aerosol (verb)	fog (verb)
	make less visible or unclear