He also developed numerous other instruments, including the manometer, cyanometer, diaphonometer, anemometer and mountain eudiometer, the first electrometer (1766), a device for measuring electric potential by means of attraction or repulsion of charged bodies, and the first hygrometer, utilizing a human hair to measure humidity (1783). From Wordnik.com. [De Saussure, Horace Bénédict] Reference
This can be accomplished by surrounding the arm A of the eudiometer. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
The combination of the two gases is brought about in a tube called a eudiometer. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
A eudiometer tube is filled with mercury and inverted in a vessel of the same liquid. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
The eudiometer, a most curious instrument for fixing the purity of air, by measuring the proportion of oxygen, was discovered by. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
A mixture of 50 cc. of carbon monoxide and 50 cc. of oxygen was exploded in a eudiometer, (a) What gases remained in the tube after the explosion?. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
~ When the quantitative synthesis of water is carried out in the eudiometer as described above, the water vapor formed by the union of the hydrogen and oxygen at once condenses. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
~ If the two gases are introduced into the eudiometer in the exact proportions in which they combine, after the combination has taken place the liquid will rise and completely fill the tube. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
N. Teclu has investigated the explosive limits of mixtures of air with certain combustible gases somewhat in the same manner as Eitner, viz.: by firing the mixture in an eudiometer tube by means of an electric spark. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
~ A form of eudiometer (Fig. 21) different from that shown on page 43 is sometimes used to avoid the calculations necessary in reducing the volumes of the gases to the same conditions of temperature and pressure in order to make comparisons. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
The mixture of gases is then made to displace a portion of the mercury by forcing it through a fine tube, which is connected by a steel cap to the eudiometer of McLeod's gas apparatus, and passes down through the mercury in the shorter arm of the experimental tube. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882] Reference
The water level and gas level are equal in the eudiometer. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Fontana's eudiometer had been shaken for a long time with water. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Carbon dioxide was determined by soda solution in a eudiometer over a mercury trough. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
The determinations were made by a 7 per cent, soda solution in a eudiometer over mercury. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Nitrogen was determined by passing a measured volume (100 c.c.) over ignited copper oxide contained in a porcelain tube, and then into a eudiometer containing soda solution. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Her mind was a perfect laboratory of tests and reagents; every syllable you put into breath went into her intellectual eudiometer, and all your thoughts were recorded on litmus-paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
Several experiments, made by means of nitrous gas in the narrow tube of Fontana's eudiometer, seemed to prove that the air of the crater contained 0.09 degrees less oxygen than the air of the sea; but I have little confidence in this result obtained by means which we now consider as very inexact. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
The exact details for the preparation of eudiometer tubes are given by Faraday (Chemical. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
100° Fahrenheit, and the action of the sun's rays upon the stagnant water before-named, gives such an intimation to the nostrils of the state of the atmosphere, as to render the use of the eudiometer unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Fontana’s eudiometer, seemed to prove that the air of the crater contained. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
The gas collected in the tube of Fontana’s eudiometer had been shaken for a long time with water. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
13. 20 cc. of hydrogen and 7 cc. of oxygen are placed in a eudiometer and the mixture exploded. (a) How many cubic centimeters of aqueous vapor are formed?. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Volta's eudiometer, contained no hydrogen, and its purity did not differ 0.002 of oxygen from the air of Paris, which we had carried with us in phials hermetically sealed.). From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
~A more convenient form of eudiometer. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
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