cryoscopy
(kraɪˈɒskəpɪ)
Formerly also kryoscopy.
[f. cryo- + -scopy.]
(See quot. 19011.) So cryoˈscopic a., cryoˈscopically adv.
| 1900 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 167 The cryoscopic behaviour of substances possessing constitutions similar to that of the solvent. 1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Jan., The clinical value of kryoscopy, that is estimation of the osmotic tendency of fluids by means of freezing. Ibid., In renal disease there is a lowering of the kryoscopic index of the urine. 1903 Nature 15 Jan. 263/1 The methods of exact cryoscopy. 1908 Practitioner Sept. 435 In differential diagnosis, he regards cryoscopic examination as of great importance. 1909 Ibid. Nov. 664 Kümmel is satisfied in such cases with the cryoscopy of the blood. 1949 E. P. Abraham in H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics II. xxiii. 872 Its molecular weight, determined cryoscopically. 1964 N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. xxiv. 505 The depression is a constant, characteristic of the particular solvent; it is called the molecular depression constant or cryoscopic constant. |