actinometer
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A very suitable instrument for timing the exposure of carbon tissue is Sawyer's actinometer.
From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney
Another object was, to bring down specimens of air from different altitudes, for analysis; to try the effect of the actinometer at great elevations; and to note the hygrometric condition.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Robert Chambers
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
The mystery was not a new type of infernal machine as they imagined but merely a home-made actinometer!
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney
It should register about 40 deg. with an actinometer used to test silver solutions.
From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney
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