ˌstalagˈmometer
[f. Gr. σταλαγµό-ς (see stalagmite) + -meter.]
An apparatus for measuring drops. So ˌstalagmoˈmetric a.; staˈlagmoscope, [-scope], an instrument for viewing drops.
| 1864 Guthrie in Proc. Roy. Soc. XIII. 477 In the cases of the still more proximate identity of isomeric bodies mentioned above..the stalagmometer may be used rather as a stalagmoscope, to render evident rather than to measure a difference of drop-size. 1910 Chem. Abstr. IV. 1765 (heading) The significance of the stalagmometric method. 1920 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. XLIV. 378 The amount of lipase in blood serum, determined by..the stalagmometric method. 1940 Glasstone Text-bk. Physical Chem. vii. 482 The weight of a definite number of drops is determined, or the number obtained from a given volume of liquid, as it flows between two marks on a stalagmometer, is counted. 1976 Coll. Czech. Chem. Commun. XLI. 1845 The dependence between the mass of the detached drop and the rate of its formation was determined by means of three stalagmometers with different sizes of the dripping area and with a different angle of the capillary edge. |