Twaddell hydrometer

noun

: a hydrometer for liquids heavier than water graduated with an arbitrary scale to give specific gravity when a reading is multiplied by 0.005 and added to unity

Word History

Etymology

after William Twaddell †1840? Scottish inventor

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