Twad"dell (?), n., Twad"dell's hy*drom"e*ter (?) . [After one Twaddell, its inventor.]

A form of hydrometer for liquids heavier than water, graduated with an arbitrary scale such that the readings when multiplied by .005 and added to unity give the specific gravity.

 

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