alcoömeter

plural alcoömeters

1. Dated spelling of alcoometer.

   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.

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

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   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.

   1864, Francis Edmund Anstie, Stimulants and Narcotics, Their Mutual Relations, page 157

   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.

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