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Device used to measure density of liquids
A hydrometer or lactometer is an instrument used for measuring density or relative density of liquids based on the concept of buoyancy. They are typically calibrated and graduated with one or more scales such as specific gravity. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: HydrometerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Revisiting soil texture analysis: Introducing a rapid single-reading hydrometer approachInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Bibliography of hydrometryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Hydrometer Method Improved for Making Particle Size Analyses of Soils 1Cited 4,324 times
- Go sideways: BrixA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Relative densityA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun An instrument that floats in a liquid and measures its specific gravity on a scale.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Hydrometer Method Improved for Making Particle Size Analyses of Soils 1
A Recalibration of the Hydrometer Method for Making Mechanical Analysis of Soils1
DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING MECHANICAL ANALYSES OF SOILS BY THE HYDROMETER METHOD
Particle Size Analysis by Hydrometer: A Simplified Method for Routine Textural Analysis and a Sensitivity Test of Measurement Parameters
THE HYDROMETER AS A NEW METHOD FOR THE MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF SOILS
STANDARD PROCEDURE IN THE HYDROMETER METHOD FOR PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS
Hydrometer Test for Estimation of Immunoglobulin Concentration in Bovine Colostrum
Soil texture analyses using a hydrometer: modification of the Bouyoucos method
🆕 Influential since 2022
Revisiting soil texture analysis: Introducing a rapid single-reading hydrometer approach
Determination of Particle Size Distribution: Comparison of Standard Hydrometer Method and Laser Diffraction Analysis for Use in Forestry
Comparison of the integral suspension pressure (ISP) and the hydrometer methods for soil particle size analysis
Effects of sample mass and suspension salinity on particle size distribution in predominantly medium to heavy textured soils using the hydrometer method
Synthesized Approach for Evaluating the Integral Suspension Pressure (ISP) Method and the Hydrometer in the Determination of Particle Size Distribution
📚 Books worth reading
Bibliography of hydrometrySteponas Kolupaila · 1961- 📕A new inversion-based algorithm for retrieval of over-water rain rate from SSM/I multichannel imageryGrant W. Petty · 1994
- 📕The testing of hydrometersUnited States. National Bureau of Standards. · 1914
- 📕Fine fuel moisture measured and estimated in dead Andropogon virginicus in HawaiiFrancis M. Fujioka · 1976
HydrometryW. Boiten · 2003- 📕The Baumé hydrometersC. F. Chandler · 1885
- 📕Testing of hydrometersElmer Line Peffer · 1949
- 📕Hydrometers and hydrometryJ. B. Rands · 1961
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