microcrith

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ crith.

Noun

microcrith (plural microcriths)

  1. (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.
    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 .

References

“microcrith”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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