Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of ascertaining the purity of the air, or of determining the nature and proportions of the constituents of any gaseous mixture, by means of the eudiometer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) The art or process of determining the constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry, dated The art or process of determining the
constituents of agaseous mixture by means of theeudiometer , or for ascertaining thepurity of the air or the amount ofoxygen in it.
Etymologies
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Compare French eudiométrie.
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The Yountish themselves have appropriately evocative names like Salmius Nalmius, Nexius Dexius or Reglum Bammary and their terminology is also suitably strange with terms like "fulgination", "eudiometry", "xantrophicius forces", all easily understood in context and adding to the sense of wonder.
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