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pyknometer

pyknometer is the alternative form of pycnometer.

Meaning of pycnometer

Noun

pycnometer (plural pycnometers)

  1. A vessel of precisely known volume used by weighing to determine the specific gravity or relative density of a liquid.
    • As Galileo showed in his tract La Bilancetta, or “The Little Balance,” a scientist of Archimedes’ stature could have achieved a far more precise result using his own law of buoyancy and an accurate scale, something far more common in the ancient world than a very precise pycnometer, which is used...2006 December 8, David Biello, “Fact or Fiction?: Archimedes Coined the Term ‘Eureka!’ in the Bath”, in Scientific American

Forms of pyknometer

pluralpyknometers

Questions about pyknometer

What is pyknometer the alternative form of?
Pyknometer is the alternative form of pycnometer.

Words near pyknometer in the dictionary

  1. pyknocytosis
  2. pyknocytotic
  3. pyknodysostosis
  4. pyknolepsy
  5. pyknoleptic
  6. pyknometer
  7. pyknometers
  8. pyknometric
  9. pyknometry
  10. pyknomorphic
  11. pyknon

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