Polarograph

American

[poh-lar-uh-graf, -grahf, puh-] / poʊˈlær əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, pə- /

Trademark.

a brand name for an instrument that automatically registers the current in electrolysis at a dropping mercury electrode.

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Polarograph is the device's name; quick, precise qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis is its purpose.

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