polariscope
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Patient work with chemicals and a polariscope discovered the three new kinds of fruit sugar in the remaining 5%.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its chief purpose is that of illuminating and defining objects which are nonpolarizable, in a similar manner to that in which the polariscope defines polarizable objects.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various
It is a saccharimeter," explained Kennedy, also looking at it, "an instrument used to detect the amount of sugar held in solution, a form of the polariscope.
From The Treasure-Train by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
Arago somewhat hastily inferred from experiments with the polariscope the wholly gaseous nature of the visible disc of the sun.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Yet experiments with the polariscope were interpreted in an adverse sense, and Bond's conclusion that the comet sent us virtually unmixed reflected sunshine was generally acquiesced in.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
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