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English
Etymology
From azote + -o- + -meter.
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azotometer (plural azotometers)
- (inorganic chemistry, obsolete) An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen.
1885, American Journal of Science, 3rd Series, Volume 30, page 57:The gases passed over a hot roll of copper gauze, then through a weighed calcium chloride tube, which absorbed the water, into an azotometer containing a concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide where the nitrogen was measured.
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- “azotometer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E Smith, editors (1914), “azotometer”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.