Microcrith
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Microcrith is a noun meaning (physics, obsolete) The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements.
Meaning
(physics, obsolete) The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements.
Example Sentences
An atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths.
1872, Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.), Principles of Chemical Philosophy It will perhaps serve to give greater definiteness to our conceptions if , even at the risk of coining a new word , we call the unit of molecular weights a microcrith .
Word Forms
- microcriths
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include micromolecule, microcrystal, cacumen, bicron, micromass, microcrucible.
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