Famous statue, Oscar, in aluminium and tin? (7)
I believe the answer is:
aerosol
'tin?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'famous statue oscar in aluminium' is the wordplay.
'famous statue' becomes 'eros' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'famous' bit.).
'oscar' becomes 'O' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'aluminium' becomes 'al' (Al is the chemical symbol for aluminium).
'eros'+'o'='eroso'
'eroso' inserted inside 'al' is 'AEROSOL'.
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for aerosol that I've seen before include "Pressurised container releasing fine spray" , "Sprayer" , "Liquid in a container under pressure" , "can, probably" , "Spray creator" .)