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The document lists various scientific instruments and devices, their purposes and uses. It provides descriptions of instruments such as a voltmeter, viscometer, thermostat, refractometer, saccharimeter, seismograph, and others. The list details what each instrument is used to measure or its function.

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Branches Science List Their Meanings

The document lists various scientific instruments and devices, their purposes and uses. It provides descriptions of instruments such as a voltmeter, viscometer, thermostat, refractometer, saccharimeter, seismograph, and others. The list details what each instrument is used to measure or its function.

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Branches of Science List and their meanings Pdf

It measures the electric potential difference between two


Voltmeter
points

Viscometer It measures the viscosity of liquids

Thermostat It regulates the temperature at a particular point

Refractometer It measures refractive index

Saccharimeter It measures the amount of sugar in the solution

Seismograph It measures the intensity of earthquake shocks

Salinometer It determines salinity of solution

It is an instrument for measuring the energy


Spectrometer
distribution of a particular type of radiation.

Speedometer It is an instrument placed in a vehicle to record its speed

Sphygmomanometer It measures blood pressure

Spherometer It measures the curvatures of surfaces

Stereoscope It is used to view two dimensional pictures

An instrument which is used by the doctors to hear and


Stethoscope
analyze heart and lung sounds.

Straboscope It is used to view rapidly moving objects

Tachometer An instrument used in measuring speeds of aero planes


and motor boats.

This instrument receives and sends typed messages


Teleprinter
from one place to another

Telescope It views distant objects in space

Theodolite It measures horizontal and vertical angles

This instrument is used for the measurement of


Thermometer
temperature.

A glass tube for measuring volume changes in chemical


Eudiometer
reactions between gases

This is used by navigators to find the latitude of a place


Sextant by measuring the elevation above the horizon of the sun
or another star.

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