actinometer
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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
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
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
Then note down everything you have done—kind of view, stop, speed of plate, exposure of each plate, and length of exposure of actinometer.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various
A very suitable instrument for timing the exposure of carbon tissue is Sawyer's actinometer.
From Photogravure by Henry R. Blaney
