Definition of Colorimetry

1. Noun. Quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter.


Definition of Colorimetry

1. n. The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance.

Definition of Colorimetry

1. Noun. The science of measuring colours and assigning them numeric values. ¹

2. Noun. (analytical chemistry) Analysis involving the quantitative measurement of colour. ¹

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Definition of Colorimetry

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Colorimetry

colorfastnesses
colorful
colorfully
colorfulness
colorfulnesses
colorific
colorimeter
colorimeters
colorimetric
colorimetric analysis
colorimetrical
colorimetrically
colorimetries
colorimetrist
colorimetrists
colorimetry (current term)
coloring
coloring book
coloring books
coloring material
colorings
colorisation
colorise
colorism
colorisms
colorist
coloristic
coloristical
coloristically
colorists

Literary usage of Colorimetry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Applied Optics by Perley Gilman Nutting (1912)
"colorimetry. Objects are distinguished by their color as well as by their form and by ... In practical colorimetry, the general problem is the analysis and ..."

2. Methods in Metallurgical Analysis by Charles Henry White (1920)
"colorimetry Many substances regularly determined in metallurgical analysis, when in solution and in certain definite forms give to the solutions ..."

3. Elementary Chemical Microscopy by Emile Monnin Chamot (1921)
"Micro-colorimetry. — Accurate quantitative colorimetric determinations may be made by taking advantage of the divided field of a comparison eyepiece. ..."

4. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society by Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (1884)
"colorimetry.-7s.Tt VI. By JAMES BOTTOMLEY, BA, D.Sc. Bead October 5th, 1880. On a Theory of Mixed Colours. IN some experiments which I was making on the ..."

5. A Handbook of Physics Measurements by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Oscar William Silvey, George William Sherman, David Christie Duncan (1918)
"... of the same solution is called TT, r,' colorimetry. In the Dubosc colorimeter, the two specimens are contained in the vertical tubes T and Ti, Fig. ..."

6. Manual of Physico-chemical Measurements by Wilhelm Ostwald (1894)
"colorimetry.—If two solutions of the same coloured substance contain it in different concentrations, two layers of a thickness inversely proportional to the ..."

7. Petroleum: Its History, Origin, Occurrence, Production, Physical and by William Theodore Brannt, Hans Höfer, Alexander Veith (1894)
"colorimetry {Measurement of Color.) Petroleum should show at the utmost a pale yellow color, and good qualities of it should be entirely colorless. ..."

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