† microrheometern.
Science. Obsolete. rare.
J. B. Hannay's name for: an apparatus for measuring the rate of flow of liquids through capillary tubes.
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1879 J. B. Hannay in Proc. Royal Soc. 28 280 The author proposes to use for liquids the term ‘Microrheosis’,..the instrument being called the microrheometer.
Derivatives
microrheometrical adj.
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1879 J. B. Hannay in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 170 280 An attempt was made to trace the microrheometrical curve below 0°.
1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. V. i. 33/3 Microrheometrical, a term applied to a method of determining the nature of bodies in solution, when flowing through small or capillary tubes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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