Crossword-Solution: HYGROSCOPE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hygroscope | n. | An instrument which shows whether there is more or less moisture in the atmosphere, without indicating its amount. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “HYGROSCOPE”
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| HUMIDITY measuring device | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HYGROSCOPE (5)
But this is but one way of discovering the _effluvia_ of the Earth mixt with the Air; there may be perhaps many others, witness the _Hygroscope_, an Instrument whereby the watery steams volatile in the Air are discerned, which the Nose it self is not able to find.
The third is, the hygroscope, moving the punch, which shews the difference between the moistest and driest airs.
The chimney top with the dowel attached to it below is made to revolve so that the Hygroscope may be adjusted.
The monk hygroscope, in which the hood, A B, covers the head to dotted line C in wet weather, and takes various intermediate positions, being quite back and on the shoulders in dry states of the air.
During the years 1794-5 he resided at Largo, occupied upon a long series of hygrometrical experiments, during the course of which he invented his differential thermometer, the parent, as it may be called, of his subsequent inventions--the hygroscope, photometer, pyroscope, æthrioscope, and atmometer.