electrometer
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The data inversion that converts the measured electrometer currents to particle concentrations is based on model calculations simulating trajectories of particles with different mobilities, and on calibration measurements of the internal losses.
From Nature ● May 24, 2016
Taking into account the internal diffusion losses, the mobility distribution is then calculated in 28 size bins from the measured electrometer currents.
From Nature ● May 24, 2016
Accelerated particles would strike this strip at the end of their spiral journeys, with their final energies to be measured by an electrometer wired to it.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
The other principal kind of electrometer we owe, as we do the galvanometers, to the wonderful ingenuity of Lord Kelvin.
From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.
He could not count all the atoms shot off, so he put the piece of radium at one end of a tube and an electrometer at the other.
From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.
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