See Also: mercaptol(medicine)

tensiometer (iou) and mercaptol (medicine)


tensiometer (iou)



tensiometer noun. E20.
[from TENSIO(N + -METER.]
An instrument for measuring the surface tension of a liquid, or esp. the tension of soil moisture. E20.
An instrument for measuring tension in a stretched wire, beam, rope, etc. M20.
tensio'metric adjective M20.
tensiometry noun M20.

mercaptol (medicine)


mercaptol


A substance derived from a ketone by the replacement of the bivalent oxygen by two thioalkyl (-SR) groups.