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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A specially graduated hydrometer that directly indicates the concentration of salt in a solution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
salinometer , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
hydrometer used to measure the concentration ofsalt in a solution
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The piece of apparatus used for the purpose is endowed with a variety of names -- sp.g. spindle, hydrometer, areometer, salimeter, alcoholimeter, lactometer, and so on, according to the special liquid upon which it is intended to be used.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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