actinometer
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You may sometimes find that the actinometer indicates a very different exposure from what the eye would lead you to expect.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various
The actinometer of M. Violle is, in principle, a sphere of copper, blackened externally, and having inside a thermometric apparatus which registers some distance away.
From Sounding the Ocean of Air by A. Lawrence Rotch
Herschell’s actinometer and Pouillet’s pyrheliometer, instruments for ascertaining the absolute heating effect of the sun’s rays, should, however, be more generally employed by meteorologists.
From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Henry Negretti
We can, however, by chemical means arrive at an exact estimate of the active power, and for this purpose an actinometer is used.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various
It should register about 40 deg. with an actinometer used to test silver solutions.
From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney
