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Definition of Colorimeter

1. Noun. A measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents.

Definition of Colorimeter

1. n. An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

Definition of Colorimeter

1. Noun. Any of various instruments designed to determine the color of something, by comparison with standard colors or by spectroscopy. ¹

2. Noun. (analytical chemistry) An analytic instrument that estimates the concentration of a substance in a sample by measuring its color against the solution's complimentary color. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Colorimeter

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colorimeter

Literary usage of Colorimeter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Selected Biochemical Methods as Applied to Urine, Blood and by Frank Pell Underhill (1921)
"If electric light must be used, a sheet of smooth white paper should be interposed between the colorimeter and the source of light. Calculation. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"Such a demonstration can be staged by the use of the Duboscq type of colorimeter. Moreover the effects of the additions of minute amounts of various ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1912)
"A colorimeter FOR RAPID WORK WITH WIDELY VARYING STANDARDS. ... This instrument is a modification of a colorimeter devised by the writer for the ..."

4. A Handbook of Physics Measurements by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Oscar William Silvey, George William Sherman, David Christie Duncan (1918)
"Determination of the Concentration of a Solution by Means of a Dubosc colorimeter THEORY OF THE EXPERIMENT. — Read Art. 60. The object of this experiment is ..."

5. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1903)
"(1) T/te Polarising colorimeter.—The simplest method is to imitate the ... The simplest method of using the polarisation colorimeter is always to fill the ..."

6. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge (1914)
"Stammers colorimeter.—This instrument has the advantage over that of Wilson that it allows of the variation of the length of the column of oil measured, ..."

7. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"... colorimeter. A dark room is desirable but not necessary, ... only to the later type of colorimeter where the cups move and the prisms are stationary. ..."

8. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"The comparisons may be made in a special form of cylinder orin a colorimeter. The latter has the advantage that a single solution of known strength serves ..."

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