alcoömeter

English

Noun

alcoömeter (plural alcoömeters)

1. Alternative form of alcoometer
   • 1864, Francis Edmund Anstie, Stimulants and Narcotics, Their Mutual Relations, page 157:

     Practically, indeed, the same aureole-heights for the same gas-percentages are obtained with mixtures of wood-spirit of different description and various densities, some pure, others impure and dilute, provided the mixture gives in the alcoömeter exactly the degree above mentioned.

   • 1886, Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage, Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat, page 114:

     Old alcohol should therefore be cleared, if necessary, before testing with the alcoömeter ; but filtration will not, of course, remove materials which are in real solution.

   • 1914, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 237:

     In an alcoömeter of the class described, a vessel for containing the liquid, a thermometric body attached to said vessel within it, a dial movable about the same axis as the alcoömeter, a connection between the thermometric body and said dial, an independent pointer mounted oncentrically with the alcoömeter, a pawl thereon, and means on said dial adapted to raise the pawl on the pointer at each passage of the latter before the zero of the dial, substantially as described.