Sentence examples for hydrometer from inspiring English sources

The density of a liquid substance is determined by a hydrometer, which measures the buoyancy of an object of known volume immersed in the fluid to be measured.

Among the devices used to measure specific gravity are the Westphal balance, the pycnometer, and the hydrometer.

The Baumé hydrometer, named for the French chemist Antoine Baumé, is calibrated to measure specific gravity on evenly spaced scales; one scale is for liquids heavier than water, and the other is for liquids lighter than water.

He invented a hydrometer (an instrument for measuring the density of liquids) in 1790.

Another instrument is the radiator hydrometer, in which the float is calibrated in terms of the freezing point of the radiator solution.

It is frequently a hydrometer that is specially calibrated to read out the percentage of salt in a solution.

A case could be made for the field men with their hydrometers, or the potato-curing techniques, or the potato computer, which turned the making of French fries from an art into a science.

It was Kroc, back in the fifties, who sent out field men, armed with hydrometers, to make sure that all his suppliers were producing potatoes in the optimal solids range of twenty to twenty-three per cent.

To help him decide, MacFadyen had a set of small glass hydrometers that measure density; by indexing density and temperature, using a crumbling reference book from 1978, he could identify the percentage of alcohol in a sample.

But if apprenticing in Europe sounds glamorous, StilltheOne's cavernous space — filled with glass beakers and hydrometers, a variety of hulking fermentation tanks and stills, and cartons of as-yet-unused bottles — speaks to the science and hard labor involved in the distilling business, especially with a unique, untried product.

The company installs hydrometers and tipping bucket rain gauges, analyses water use and rainfall, and implements an irrigation schedule by remotely controlling customers' sprinkler systems.