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salinometer|sælɪˈnɒmɪtə(r)| [f. saline + -ometer.] An apparatus or instrument for ascertaining the salinity of water.
1844Mech. Mag. XL. 34 Mr. J. Scott Russell's Salinometer. 1876Catal. Sci. App. S. Kens. 97. 1884 Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Salinometer, an instrument for testing the strength of a brine or salt pickle. 1963G. L. Pickard Descriptive Physical Oceanogr. vi. 86 One of the great advantages of the electrical salinometer is that it uses a null-balance method. 1977M. G. Gross Oceanogr. (ed. 2) v. 127 Salinometers are commonly used for salinity determinations on oceanographic ships and at shore-based laboratories. Hence saliˈnometry, the use of a salino-meter; measurement of the salinity of water.
1907in Webster. 1964Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 104 Magazine loading of samples and automatic print-out of results have been achieved for radioactive samples, and similar developments in salinometry would not be impossible. |