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thermodynamometer

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sensitive thermometer, devised by Pictet and Cellerier, in which the thermometric substance is the saturated vapor of some volatile liquid in the closed end of a manometrie tube. The temperature of the vapor is shown by the height of the mercurial column supported by it.

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