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  • noun Plural form of electroscope.

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Examples

  • To answer this question Reich performed an ingenious series of experiments wherein he functionally dissected the orgone-charged GM system utilizing calibrated electroscopes and a volt-ammeter attached in a variety of ways to the counter tube and GM amplifier.

    Chapter 4 1990

  • By the side of gold leaf electroscopes we see a feather electroscope, which is fastened to its support by means of a silken thread.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 Various

  • I want you to change the films and develop them and check the electroscopes according to the dose in the manual.

    Rocket Ship Galileo Heinlein, Robert A. 1947

  • They could fashion pinhead cameras and three-gram electroscopes or balances capable of measuring the pressure of electronic impacts.

    Empire Clifford D. Simak 1946

  • Correll, when not engaged designing electroscopes, improving sledge-meters and perfecting theodolites, was something of a specialist in clocks.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • Faraday had a powerful machine working in the neighborhood, giving all varieties of gradual working-up and discharges by ` impulsive rush '; and whether it was a sudden discharge of ordinary insulated conductors, or of Leyden jars in the neighborhood outside the cage, or electrification and discharge of the cage itself, he saw no effects on his most delicate gold-leaf electroscopes in the interior.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

  • Faraday had a powerful machine working in the neighborhood, giving all varieties of gradual working-up and discharges by 'impulsive rush'; and whether it was a sudden discharge of ordinary insulated conductors, or of Leyden jars in the neighborhood outside the cage, or electrification and discharge of the cage itself, he saw no effects on his most delicate gold-leaf electroscopes in the interior.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • The twins are also physics students, and carry electroscopes wherever they go.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] LoganBertram 2010

  • The twins are also physics students, and carry electroscopes wherever they go.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] NotesTH 2010

  • The twins are also physics students, and carry electroscopes wherever they go.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

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