Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I

part in volume for every degree of Fahrenheit's scale. The measurement of

this expansion has been proposed as a new and ready method of alcoholometry, adapted to nearly all spirituous and fermented liquors. Silbermann's instrument, which is based on it (see _engr._), simply consists of a flat brass or ivory plate (_A_), on which are fixed a mercurial thermometer (_D_) graduated...