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Definition of Electroscopes
1. electroscope [n] - See also: electroscope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electroscopes
Literary usage of Electroscopes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1915)
"electroscopes 16. Simple electroscopes. — An instrument for detecting whether a
body is electrified or not, and whether the electrification is positive or ..."
2. Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature, and the Source and Modes of Action of by Zachariah Allen (1852)
"Admitting the lifeless matter of electroscopes to be endowed with inherent
self-directive powers, this attribute is therefore more mathematically perfect ..."
3. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1904)
"On Electrometers and electroscopes. 214.] An electrometer is an instrument by
means of which electric charges or electric potentials may be measured. ..."
4. A Treatise on Electricity, in Theory and Practice by Auguste de La Rive, Charles Vincent Walker (1853)
"electroscopes. electroscopes or electrometers are apparatus designed for detecting
... We have already spoken of simple electroscopes, and of the quadrant ..."
5. Rudimentary Electricity: Being a Concise Exposition of the General by William Snow Harris (1853)
"electroscopes—Condenser—Electrical Machines—Hydro-electric Machine ... electroscopes
consist of any delicately suspended light body, capable of yielding to ..."
6. Elements of Electricity, Magnetism, and Electro-magnetism: Embracing the by Jean Baptiste BIOT (1826)
"electroscopes are instruments destined, as their name imports, ... Other electroscopes
are also founded on the general principle of the repulsion which ..."
7. Meteorology: A Text-book on the Weather, the Causes of Its Changes, and by Willis Isbister Milham (1912)
"147, two simple electroscopes which may serve as electrometers are shown. One is
a gold leaf electroscope which has been made more sensitive and accurate ..."
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