Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mass spectroscope that records its data electronically.
Wiktionary
- n. A device used in mass spectrometry to discover the mass spectrum of a given substance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physics, Chemistry) An analytical instrument which determines the mass of molecules of a substance or fragments of its molecules. It functions by injecting ionized moecules or molecular gragments into a vacuum chamber subjected to a strong magnetic field, in which charged particles move in a curved trajectory.
WordNet 3.0
- n. spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer
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In The Laboratory
List of laboratory glassware and apparatuses, machines, tools, etc., starting with burette.
Please feel free to help me populate this list, all you mad scientist Wordniks.burette, reagent bottle, Erlenmeyer flask, pipette, centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, beaker, spot plate, crucible, flask, mortar, pestle and 117 more...
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SEDE - technology+material+support
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SCIE - noun-noun collocations
The collocations below consist of nouns only. Noun-noun collocations are extremely frequent in science (just think of the names of species, chemical compounds or "scientist+invention" type collocat...
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measure for measure
Things that can be used to measure other things.
osmometer, thermometer, spectrometer, ruler, rain gauge, ph meter, spectrophotometer, odometer, tachometer, compass, brannock device, tape measure and 51 more...
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