Meaning of alcoometer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hydrometer or aerometer calibrated to measure the percentage of alcohol in a mixture of alcohol and water.
2. Dated spelling of alcoometer.

Examples

“In a further series of experiments he applies to the distilled urines which have been vainly tested by the alcoometer the chromic acid test, and obtains decided indications of the presence of alcohol, either immediately or after a longer or shorter time.”

“The quantity is so minute that the alcoometer is not in the least affected by it, and it requires the chromic acid test even to reveal its presence.”

“On the principle of the alcoometer, a great variety of areometers are constructed, for determining the strength of wines, syrups, and other liquids employed in the arts.”

“Testimony as to the results of a test made on an alcoometer falls within the classification of expert testimony, and in order to be competent, the person so testifying must be skilled in the mechanics and use of the machine.”

“Practically, indeed, the same aureole-heights for the same gas-percentages are obtained with mixtures of wood-spirit of different description and various densities, some pure, others impure and dilute, provided the mixture gives in the alcoömeter exactly the degree above mentioned.”

“Old alcohol should therefore be cleared, if necessary, before testing with the alcoömeter ; but filtration will not, of course, remove materials which are in real solution.”

“In an alcoömeter of the class described, a vessel for containing the liquid, a thermometric body attached to said vessel within it, a dial movable about the same axis as the alcoömeter, a connection between the thermometric body and said dial, an independent pointer mounted oncentrically with the alcoömeter, a pawl thereon, and means on said dial adapted to raise the pawl on the pointer at each passage of the latter before the zero of the dial, substantially as described.”

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