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Calorimeter

noun
1.
A measuring instrument that determines quantities of heat.



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... in this direction, as in so many others, is due to the genius of Sir William Siemens. His first attempt was a calorimetric pyrometer, in which a mass of copper at the temperature required to be known is thrown into the water of a calorimeter, and the heat it has absorbed thus determined. This method, however, is not very reliable, and was superseded by his well-known electric pyrometer. This rests on the principle that the electric ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 • Various
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