1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1521/2*Nephelodometer, an instrument for ascertaining the distances of the clouds.
1816 Bentham Chrestom.Wks. 1843 VIII. 27/2Of late years, *Nephelognosy..has become a candidate for existence.
1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 645All men in all lands are *nephelolaters or cloud admirers.
1881 Arctic Cruise Corwin 14 The *nephe logical state of the atmosphere. [ lo]
1884 Amer. Meteorol. Jrnl. I. 4It bears about the same relations to the *nephelometer which we should have, that the sun-dial bears to the clock.
1895 T. W. Richards in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts &Sci. XXX. 385Since the opalescence was so faint that one could only with difficulty see it at all under ordinary conditions, a piece of apparatus, which may be named a ‘nephelometer’ (νεϕελη, a cloud), was devised for detecting it.
1906 McFarland & L'Engle in Medicine (Detroit) XII. 249/1It occurred to us that uniformity in the number of bacteria..could be secured with reasonable accuracy by some means of measuring and standardizing the turbidity of the fluid containing them. We therefore devised a simple instrument, for which we suggest the name nephelometer.., by which it became easy to secure any desired degree of turbidity.
1936 F. D. & C. T. Snell Colorimetric Methods ofAnal. viii. 91In the usual nephelometer the opaque tubes with clear glass bottoms used in colorimetry have been replaced with clear glass tubes with opaque bottoms.
1969 Atmospheric Environment III. 561 The multi-wavelength adaptation of the integrating nephelometer makes possible the local measurement of the wavelength dependence of the extinction coefficient due to scatter of atmospheric air.
1974 Times-Herald-Record (Middletown, N.Y. ) 12 May, (caption)Researchers set up a light scattering instrument called an integrating nephelometer atop Mount Beacon. The tests were part of an air-pollution study.
1905 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. XXVII. 485The application of these observations to the *nephelometric analysis of a very dilute silver chloride solution is obvious.
1929 P. A. Kober in J. H. Yoe PhotometricChem. Anal. II. vi. 71Precipitants for the production of nephelometric suspensions are as varied as the substances precipitated.
1971 P. R. Hesse Textbk. SoilChem. Anal. xii. 314The only difference between turbidimetric and nephelometric measurement of sulphate is in the measurement of the final turbidity.
1905 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. XXVII. 507When in a day or two the precipitate had settled and the mother-liquor had become clear the latter was examined *nephelometrically.
1971 P. R. Hesse Textbk. SoilChem. Anal. xvi. 423Silver is extracted from soil by acid digestion and is classically determined nephelometrically as the chloride.
1876 T. P. Blunt in Chem. News 7 Jan. 7/2It would appear that the usefulness of colorimetry, and also of judgment by turbidity, which may provisionally be termed ‘*nephelometry’, might be widely extended.
1906 Amer. Chem. Jrnl. XXXV. 113In order to save the time of those attempting nephelometry, the precautions for several typical cases are here collected.
1929 J. H. Yoe PhotometricChem. Anal. II. iii. 18When colorimetry or nephelometry is used at all, in routine analytical work or in research problems, it is apt to be used almost continuously.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. &Technol. IX. 40/1The advantage of nephelometry is its greater sensitivity, accuracy, and precision in the determination of small amounts of turbidity. [ over turbidimetry]
1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1521/2*Nephelorometer, an instrument for ascertaining the speed and direction of motion of the clouds.
1889 Winchell World-life 543It gathers into a vaporous envelope, constituting a true atmosphere or *nephelosphere. [ water mist]
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