actinometer
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A selenium actinometer has been described in the Comptes Rendus in a communication from M. Morize, of Rio de Janeiro.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various
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
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
It should register about 40 deg. with an actinometer used to test silver solutions.
From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney
A very suitable instrument for timing the exposure of carbon tissue is Sawyer's actinometer.
From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney
