ac·ti·nom·e·ter

(ăk′tə-nŏm′ĭ-tər)

Any of several radiometric instruments, such as a pyrheliometer, used chiefly for meteorological measurements of terrestrial and solar radiation.

ac′ti·no·met′ric (-nō-mĕt′rĭk), ac′ti·no·met′ri·cal adj.

ac′ti·nom′e·try n.

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actinometry

the measurement of the heating power of light in the violet and ultraviolet range. — actinometrist, n. — actinometric, actinometrical, adj.

See also: Light

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Noun

actinometry - measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (especially of the sun's rays)

measurement, measuring, mensuration, measure - the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate"

Translations

actinométrie

attinometria

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Disciplines pursued (in addition to meteorology) included hydrology, actinometry, geomagnetism, atmospheric electricity, botany, zoology, and the study of aurora borealis.

Boris Aleksandrovich Kremer (1908-76)--Polyarnik

The intensity of the Philips 36 W TUV tube was determined by potassium ferrioxalate actinometry [63], and a value of 5.50 [+ or -] 0.11 x [10.sup.18] quanta [s.sup.-1] was obtained.

Stability-Indicating Photochemical Method for the Assay of Thiamine by Spectrophotometry

The extended use of actinometry in the interpretation of photochemical reaction engineering data.

Modelado y evaluacion experimental de un reactor solar fotocatalitico no isotermico: efecto de la temperatura sobre la cinetica de la velocidad de reaccion

Dalton, "Characterization of neutral species densities in dual frequency capacitively coupled photoresist ash plasmas by optical emission actinometry," Journal of Applied Physics, vol.

Photoresist Removal Using H Radicals Generated by Iridium Hot-Wire Catalyst

The measurement of the intensity of General Electric 15 W fluorescent lamp was carried out by potassium ferrioxalate actinometry [19] and a value of 2.85 [+ or -] 0.26 x [10.sup.16] quanta [s.sup.-1] was obtained.

Solvent effect on photoinitiator reactivity in the polymerisation of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate

The photon flux inside the photoreactor was evaluated by o-nitrobenzaldehyde actinometry [28, 29], being 2.68 [micro]Einstein [s.sup.-1].

Adsorption and photocatalytic decomposition of the [beta]-blocker metoprolol in aqueous titanium dioxide suspensions: kinetics, intermediates, and degradation pathways

Actinometry. Gidrometeorologicheskoe izdatelstvo, Leningrad-Moscow (in Russian).

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