water-analysis love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In chem., the analysis of waters, either to determine their potable quality, or fitness for use in boilers or otherwise in the arts.

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Examples

  • New York City public-school teachers post one-page proposals for class projects, then donors scroll down and choose something to fund, in whole or in part, from a small puppet theater ($497) to six water-analysis kits for a science project ($2,271).

    Schools: Sweet Charity 2007

  • To determine how the various methods of water-analysis were effected by a change of the organic matter from organic compounds in solution to organisms in suspension, some experiments were made with hay-infusion.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

  • Dec. 13 Bloomberg -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world's largest maker of laboratory instruments, agreed to acquire Dionex Corp. for about $2.1 billion to expand in the water-analysis business in China.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world's largest maker of laboratory instruments, agreed to acquire Sunnyvale-based Dionex Corp. for about $2.1 billion to expand in the water-analysis business in China.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Elizabeth Lopatto 2010

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