Sentence examples for calorimeter from inspiring English sources
'calorimeter' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is mainly used in scientific contexts to refer to a device for measuring the amount of heat produced by an object. For example, "The laboratory assistant used the calorimeter to measure the heat produced when heating a sample of liquid."
noun
An apparatus for measuring the heat generated or absorbed by either a chemical reaction, change of phase or some other physical change.
Bunsen also invented the filter pump (1868), the ice calorimeter (1870), and the vapour calorimeter (1887).
Joly is also noted for his inventions of a thermometer, a steam calorimeter for measuring heat energy, and a photometer for measuring light frequencies.
One type in widespread use, called a bomb calorimeter, basically consists of an enclosure in which the reaction takes place, surrounded by a liquid, such as water, that absorbs the heat of the reaction and thus increases in temperature.
Later he developed the electrical continuous-flow calorimeter, which measures the heat-carrying properties of liquids.
Among his inventions were an improved automatic recording calorimeter for testing manufactured gas (1905) and high-speed cameras for photographing rapidly moving objects, such as bullets and lightning discharges.
With the help of four funny film clips, a calorimeter, a heart rate monitor, and digitised audio data for counting the number of laughs, they worked out that the energy loss from laughter was the equivalent of from 0.79-1.30 kJ/min (0.19-0.31 kcal/min).
They have had them ride stationary bicycles inside calorimeters which measure their energy output.
Calorimeters have been designed in great variety.
Bomb calorimeters have been developed to the point that heats of combustion of organic materials can be measured with results reproducible within 0.01 percent.
Cesium-iodide calorimeters measure the radiation's energy levels.
Dr. Wefel and his colleagues have been chasing sparks in the sky since 2000, when they flew an instrument known as ATIC, for Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter, around Antarctica on a balloon at an altitude of 23 miles, looking for high-energy particles known as cosmic rays raining from space.
