Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a po- lariscope; ascertained by the polariscope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Opt.) Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
polariscope .
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Examples
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It would be very desirable to have an absolute standard set for polariscopic measurements, to which all instruments could be referred, and in the terms of which all such work could be stated.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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They consist in weighing out the sugar, dissolving it, clarifying the solution, making it up to standard volume, filtering, filling the observation tube, regulating the illumination, and making the polariscopic reading.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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There follow a great number of precipitates; the exact volume of liquid in which these are found is determined after two polariscopic observations.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
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The polariscopic reading may now be taken, an observation on the 90° control plate having been made immediately before as previously described.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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Not only do the above polariscopic tests tend to this conclusion, but so does the following observation of mine in October.
Mars 1895
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All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color, all tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above 75°, seven-tenths of 1 cent per pound, and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test two-hundredths of 1 cent per pound additional.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison 1867
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Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison 1867
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All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color, all tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice or of beet juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above 75°, seven-tenths of 1 cent per pound, and for every additional degree or fraction of a degree shown by the polariscopic test two-hundredths of 1 cent per pound additional.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison 1867
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Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison 1867
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All sugars not above No. 13 Dutch standard in color shall pay duty on their polariscopic tests as follows, namely:
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison 1867
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