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balanceApparatus for weighing or measuring mass. The various types include the beam balance, consisting of a centrally pivoted lever with pans hanging from each end, and the spring balance, in which the object to be weighed stretches (or compresses) a vertical coil spring fitted with a pointer that indicates the weight on a scale. Kitchen and bathroom scales are balances. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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(a) Includes a spectrophotometer, distillation unit for purifying
laboratory water, analytical balance, top-loading balance, hot plate
with stirrer, and glassware. AX, MX and UMX analytical balances replace the company's AT
line of balances and consist of 12 ultra-high resolution models with
unprecedented weighing ranges from 2. The "cuts" are
weighed on an analytical balance to determine the average mass and this
value is extrapolated to the mass that would be extruded in 10
minutes--the MFR. |
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