Sentence examples for microbalance from inspiring English sources

To do this, he and his colleagues use an apparatus called a quartz crystal microbalance.In this section The old new thing Only a matter of time Good vibrations On the other seven hands ReprintsThe balance is a disc made of a polished quartz crystal, with two electrodes attached to it.

Small quartz microbalances with capacities of less than a gram have been constructed with a reliability much greater than is ordinarily found with small assay-type balances having a metal beam with three knife-edges.

Microbalances are used chiefly to determine the densities of gases, particularly of gases obtainable only in small quantities.

The ultramicrobalance is any weighing device that serves to determine the weight of smaller samples than can be weighed with the microbalance i.e., total amounts as small as one or a few micrograms.