Definition of Refractometry

1. Noun. (physics) The measurement of refractive index ¹

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Definition of Refractometry

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Medical Definition of Refractometry

1. Measurement of the index of refraction (the ratio of the velocity of light or other radiation in the first of two media to its velocity in the second as it passes from one into the other). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Refractometry

refractive
refractive accommodative esotropia
refractive amblyopia
refractive errors
refractive index
refractive keratoplasty
refractive keratotomy
refractively
refractiveness
refractivities
refractivity
refractometer
refractometers
refractometric
refractometries
refractometry (current term)
refractor
refractories
refractorily
refractoriness
refractors
refractory
refractory-lined
refractory anaemia
refractory anaemia with excess blasts
refractory anemia
refractory cast
refractory flask
refractory lining
refractory metal

Literary usage of Refractometry

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

1. Outlines of Applied Optics by Perley Gilman Nutting (1912)
"refractometry. The refractive indices of various common substances of fixed composition ... Work in refractometry lies chiefly along five different lines, ..."

2. NBS Special Publication (1920)
"refractometry AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS. In addition to the more or less routine tests of refractive indices of optical materials and on the performance of ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"In the absence of molecular weight changes, the light-scattering approach seems to be preferable to differential refractometry for measuring solute-solvent ..."

4. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1915)
"Recent contributions on the refractometry of nerve fluid. Idem 118-21; Chem. Zentr. ... V. refractometry of the nerve fluid in infectious diseases. ..."

5. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"... hensive application of refractometry to blood serum. to loo parts of 10% ale.; aurantia with 0.2 part stain to 100 parts 10^ ^ used in ai% soin. ..."

6. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"... Je 30 47 refractometry and identification of glass specimens. Scl Am S 84:198-9 S 29 '17 Martin, ..."

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