actinometer

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It should register about 40 deg. with an actinometer used to test silver solutions.

From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.

A Johnson's actinometer is very useful to time the exposure.

From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.

The actinometer consists of a large cylindrical thermometer bulb, with a scale considerably lengthened, so that minute changes may be easily seen.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry

The mystery was not a new type of infernal machine as they imagined but merely a home-made actinometer!

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles

The actinometer of M. Violle is, in principle, a sphere of copper, blackened externally, and having inside a thermometric apparatus which registers some distance away.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by Rotch, A. Lawrence