Definition & Meaning | English word REFRACTOMETER
REFRACTOMETER
Definitions of REFRACTOMETER
- (physics) An optical instrument used to measure the refractive index of a substance.
Number of letters
13
Is palindrome
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Examples of Using REFRACTOMETER in a Sentence
- Abbe refractometer, a bench-top refractometer that offers the highest precision of the different types of refractometers.
- In gemology, the gemstone refractometer is one of the fundamental pieces of equipment used in a gemological laboratory.
- In the Abbe refractometer the liquid sample is sandwiched into a thin layer between an illuminating prism and a refracting prism.
- Specific gravity is measured by a hydrometer, refractometer, pycnometer or oscillating U-tube electronic meter.
- Early products included a boiler feedwater flame photometer, a balloon hydrometer, a nerve gas detector, a lab refractometer and process control refractometers.
- Smith also developed new instruments for the practical measurement of the crystallographic and optical features of minerals and gems (goniometers and a refractometer), and wrote a text book on gemstones and gemmology that was first published in 1912, and went through many editions, with the thirteenth edition published in 1958.
- Osmolality is measured by osmometer, which evaluates the freezing point depression of a solution and supplies results as milliosmoles per kilogram of water while specific gravity is measured by colorimetric strips, refractometer, hydrometer and pyknometer.
- Viticulturists and winemakers can use a refractometer which uses a refractive index to indirectly measure the must weight from the juice of a single grape or they can use a hydrometer in the winery with the juice from several dozen or hundreds of grape berries.
- He devised or collaborated to produce a number of tools and techniques for which he won repute, including a hydrometer, an oxy-hydrogen microscope (the gasses providing a bright light-source), a baroscope, a refractometer; improvements in electroplating, electric cell design, and microscope mountings.
- Centralized Biochemistry laboratory: For the quality evaluation, studies on nutraceuticals, plant physiology and biochemical studies equipped with HPLC, gas chromatograph, HPTLC, refractometer, moisture analyzer, Cylotec sample mill, freeze drier, vacuum concentrator, chlorophyll flurometer, plant canopy analyzer, Photosynthetic system, plant growth chamber etc.
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