oil-drop
noun
1A drop of oil or lipid.
2Attributive denoting an experimental method of measuring the charge of the electron by means of the motion of electrically charged oil droplets.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
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