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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for ascertaining the weight and purity of oil; an elæometer.
- noun An apparatus for determining the proportion of oil contained in seeds, nuts, pressed seed-cakes, and other materials. It is so contrived as to allow of a small quantity of a volatile solvent being used to extract the oil, being distilled back upon the material under treatment, and filtered through it a number of times in succession. See
Soxhlet's extraction apparatus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) An instrument for ascertaining the weight and purity of oil; an elaiometer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry An
instrument for determining theweight andpurity ofoil .
Etymologies
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Latin oleum oil + -meter.
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