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carbonometer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
car-bonome-ter
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An early device for measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in a gas, by bubbling it through limewater and measuring the cloudiness.

Obsolete

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.? Latin carbōnemlbor. French carbonebor. English carbon Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English -meter English carbonometer From carbon + -o- + -meter.

Usage

Inflected Forms

carbonometers (plural)

Questions

What does carbonometer mean?
An early device for measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in a gas, by bubbling it through limewater and measuring the cloudiness.
Where does carbonometer come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.? Latin carbōnemlbor. French carbonebor. English carbon Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English -meter English carbonometer From carbon + -o- + -meter.

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