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单词 eprouvette
释义

eprouvetten.

/ɛpruːˈvɛt/
Etymology: < French éprouvette, < éprouver to try, to test.
1. An apparatus for testing the strength of gunpowder. Also attributive.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > testing > testing instruments > apparatus for testing gunpowder
powder-trier1667
eprouvette1782
powder prover1792
proof1800
provett1811
1782 B. Thompson in Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 298 All the eprouvettes, or powder-triers, in common use are defective.
1839 Sat. Mag., Supp. Jan. 40/1 Another form of éprouvette was devised by the late Dr. Hutton.
1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 37 Where experiments are conducted..with moveable eprouvettes, a certain loss is sustained.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 807/2 The éprouvette-mortar of the British service is 8 inches in diameter.
2. A spoon used in assaying metals.
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Éprouvette, a flux spoon. A spoon for sampling an assay.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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