Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
COLORIMETER
colorimeter, tintometer
(noun) a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
colorimeter (plural colorimeters)
Any of various instruments designed to determine the color of something, by comparison with standard colors or by spectroscopy.
(analytical chemistry) An analytic instrument that estimates the concentration of a substance in a sample by measuring its color against the solution's complimentary color.
Source: Wiktionary
Col`or*im"e*ter, n. Etym: [Color + -meter: cf. F. colorimètre.]
Definition: An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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