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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An apparatus devised by Joly for determining the melting-points of minerals.

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  • The unlooked-for characters of the mineral, coupled with the extreme minuteness of the crystals, led me previously astray, until my meldometer fixed its fusibility for me as far above the suspected bodies.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various

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