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Electroscope

noun
1.
Measuring instrument that detects electric charge; two gold leaves diverge owing to repulsion of charges with like sign.





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"Electroscope" Quotes from Famous Books



... which has the quality of shining in the dark, remaining warm the while, and it throws out bodies known as electrons. When these bodies touch the air or any gas they impart to that gas the power to discharge an electroscope. While this gas is giving forth heat and discharging electrons it gradually vanishes, and instead another gas appears, of low density, the spectrum of which M. Janssen, a famous French astronomer, noticed in the light of the sun during 1868, and which was first discovered on the earth ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 3 • Various


Words linked to "Electroscope" :   measuring system, measuring device, measuring instrument


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