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cryoscopes

cryoscopes is the plural of cryoscope.

Meaning of cryoscope

Noun

cryoscope (plural cryoscopes)

  1. (physical) A device used to measure the freezing point of a liquid (or the melting point of a solid).
    • Since this work was undertaken, Raoult has kindly informed me that he has repeated his work with cane-sugar, using an improved cryoscope, constructed so as to prevent direct radiation from the freezing-mixture to the bulb of the thermometer.1895, Harry C. Jones, “On the Cryoscopic Relations of Dilute Solutions of Cane-Sugar and Ethyl Alcohol”, in Philosophical Magazine, page 391

Questions about cryoscopes

What is cryoscopes the plural of?
Cryoscopes is the plural of cryoscope.

Words near cryoscopes in the dictionary

  1. cryosauna
  2. cryosaunas
  3. cryoscience
  4. cryosciences
  5. cryoscope
  6. cryoscopes
  7. cryoscopic
  8. cryoscopically
  9. cryoscopies
  10. cryoscopy
  11. cryosection

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