Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for showing the fall of temperature in water by evaporation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32° Fahr.
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- noun chemistry An
instrument used toillustrate thefreezing ofwater by its ownevaporation . The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs connected by a tube and containing only a quantity of water and water vapour, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below zero.
Etymologies
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Latin, from Ancient Greek.
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For this purpose we shall find it more convenient to use a cryophorus of this shape (fig. 4.), as its elongated bulb passes easily through a brass plate which closes the top of the receiver.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word cryophorus
JM baffled Bunnings when he went shopping for a new cryophorus after the old one froze up.
February 14, 2010