Baumé

[boh-mey, boh-mey]

Antoine,1728–1804, French chemist and inventor.

pertaining to, noting, or calibrated according to a Baumé scale.

Origin of Baumé

First recorded in 1835–45

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Yet it was to the Ste. Baume that Muriel had gone, and that she had written to her husband.
Running Sands
Reginald Wright Kauffman
This instrument is precisely similar in construction to those of Twaddle and Baume.
A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products
F. B. Wright
Mr. Baume, will, I think find the difficulties he mentions to disappear, if the pupil prepare himself as I have prescribed.
The Aural System
Anonymous
Mr. Baume says he has practised his method with considerable success during twenty years.
The Aural System
Anonymous
Mr. Baume recommends a similar method between teacher and pupil, but omits to state how the pupil can best prepare himself for it.
The Aural System
Anonymous

baume in Medicine

[bō-mā′]Antoine 1728-1804

French pharmacist who invented a process for making sal ammonia and in 1768 devised an improved hydrometer using the scale that now bears his name.