1) Laboratory glassware
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A cryophorus is a glass container containing liquid water and water vapor. It is used in physics courses to demonstrate rapid freezing by evaporation. A typical cryophorus has a bulb at one end connected to a tube of the same material. When the liquid water is manipulated into the bulbed end and the other end is submerged into a freezing mixture (...
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• (n.) An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32
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Cry·oph'o·rus (kri*ŏf'o*rŭs)
noun [ New Latin , from Greek
kry`os icy cold, frost +
fe`rein to bear.]
(Chemistry) An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube ...
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The cryophorus is an instrument invented by Wollaston about 1812 to demonstrate the relation between evaporation at low temperatures and the production of cold. Wollaston's cryophorus consists of two glass globes united by a moderately-wide glass tube. Water is poured in and boiled to expel the air, and while boiling the apparatus is hermetically s...
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cryophorus An instrument for showing the freezing of water by its own evaporation.
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