ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EUDIOMETER
From Greek eudios, literally: clear skied (from eu- + Dios, genitive of Zeus god of the heavens) + -meter.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EUDIOMETER»
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eudiometer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Introduction to Chemical Principles: A Laboratory Approach
100-mL Eudiometer Water level 500-mL Cylinder Mg strip in wire cage One-hole
rubber stopper Wire extending from cage Water in your cage, or pieces of
magnesium will escape during the reaction. Leave a 10- to 12-cm piece of wire ...
Susan Weiner, Blaine Harrison, 2009
The eudiometer is based upon a striking property of nitrous air: "I hardly know
any experiment that is more adapted to amaze and surprize than this is," Priestley
wrote, "which exhibits a quantity of air, w hich, as it were, devours a quantity of ...
Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach, 1996
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A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century: Part First; in ...
The second kind of Eudiometer was proposed by Vol- ta. His method was to mix
given proportions of the air to be examined, and hydrogen gas, in a graduated
glass tube 5 to fire the mixture by an electric spark ; and to judge of the purity of
the ...
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ...
immediately apparent, making the deduction above stated from the azotic gas. Dr
. Hope's eudiometer is represented in the annexed figure. It is used with a
solution either of sulphate of iron impregnated with nitric oxide or with solution of
...
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Nineteenth-century Scientific Instruments
Hope's eudiometer ( height 340 mm ) ( 7 7 4 ) ; a spark eudiometer (height 293
mm) ( 120) ; a voltameter (overall height 160 mm ) used for the electrolysis of
water into hydrogen and oxygen ( 398 ) . Early 19th century. Museum of the
History of ...
Gerard L'Estrange Turner, 1983
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A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an ...
... the principal of which are the following. I. The eudiometer originally used by Dr.
-Priestley is a divided glass tube, into which, after having filled it with common
water, and inverted it into the same, one measure or more of common air, ...
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
img is fastened, which con-tains two brass' rin.ss moveable upon opposite
centres, in the sime manner liiat sea-compasfes are usually suspended, and
which are commonly called gi.-igLi. CCCC represents the measuring tube or
eudiometer; ...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts
The purity of nitric oxide is easily ascertained, by means of a solution of green
muriate, or green sulphate of iron, and the sliding rod eudiometer above
described. A small bottle being filled with a solution of the salt, and inverted upon
the shelf ...
The first eudiometer used was by Dr Priestley. It consisted in mixing 100
measures of air and 100 of nitrous gas in a tube. The goodness of the air was
judged of by the greatness of the diminution. This method was improved by
Fontana, and is ...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
ring is fastened, which contains two brass rnrjrs tnoveab'.e upon opposite centres
, in the sime manner that sca-compalVes are usually suspended, nnd which are
commonly called ginglej. CCCC represents the measuring tuhe or eudiometer ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EUDIOMETER»
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eudiometer is used in the context of the following news items.
Landriani's eudiometer
As a youngster, whenever the sun was shining and I was in the house reading a book, the grownups would tell me: 'Go get some fresh air. «Royal Society of Chemistry, Jan 15»
The Spark Plug Started Out As A Really Dangerous Toy
... and one of the used he put this current to was the Eudiometer, which was a device that ignited a mixture of hydrogen and air to determine the ... «Jalopnik, Mar 13»
