salinometern.
/salɪˈnɒmɪtə/ An apparatus or instrument for ascertaining the salinity of water.
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1844 Mechanics' Mag. 40 34 Mr. J. Scott Russell's Salinometer.
1876 Catal. Special Loan Coll. Sci. Apparatus S. Kensington Mus. 97.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 778/1 Salinometer, an instrument for testing the strength of a brine or salt pickle.
1963 G. L. Pickard Descriptive Physical Oceanogr. vi. 86 One of the great advantages of the electrical salinometer is that it uses a null-balance method.
1977 M. G. Gross Oceanogr. (ed. 2) v. 127 Salinometers are commonly used for salinity determinations on oceanographic ships and at shore-based laboratories.
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saliˈnometry n. the use of a salino-meter; measurement of the salinity of water.
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1907 in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 104 Magazine loading of samples and automatic print-out of results have been achieved for radioactive samples, and similar developments in salinometry would not be impossible.
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