It is, upon the whole, a large areometer with constant weight and variable volume that is plunged into a cylindrical vessel 0.
For each variation of a thousandth in density, the areometer sinks about 5 millimeters--that is to say, it presents a sensitiveness that is more than sufficient in practice.
For that reason, there are in Europe inspectors, whose duty it is to weigh spirits, particularly brandy: for that purpose they make use of the areometer and the thermometer.
The variations in cold or heat influence liquors; they acquire density in the cold, and lose it in the heat: hence follows that the areometer does not sink enough in the winter, and sinks too much in the summer.
This fraud is detected by means of an areometer (lactodensimeter) which gives directly the specific gravity of the fluid under examination.
Gay-Lussac has proposed an areometer (alcoholmeter), provided with a scale which directly indicates the proportion of alcohol contained in a mixture.
This acetate of alumine at 18° of the areometer of Baumè, and in the quantity of five or six quarts, is sufficient to preserve a body for five or six months.
A killogram dissolved in five hundred scruples of water gives a quart of liquid which marks 32° on the areometer of Baumè.
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