colorimeter
Noun
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Noun
colorimeter (plural colorimeters)
- Any of various instruments designed to determine the color of something, by comparison with standard colors or by spectroscopy.
- 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre 2003, p. 113:
- It was, however, the need to distinguish specifically between different brown colours which led to the world's first colorimeter.
- 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre 2003, p. 113:
- (analytical chemistry) An analytic instrument that estimates the concentration of a substance in a sample by measuring its color against the solution's complimentary color.
- Italian: colorimetro
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