Gizmo Quiz Vol 2 #14

More Saturday Fun

[coconutz]

Here's this week's gizmo [images3.fotki.com]. And I guess you'd need these [images3.fotki.com] to use this thing.

While beautiful and alluring, it suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) so we're looking for the specific name or type of gizmo.

[defanjos]

Is it used in the medical field?

[coconutz]

I'd guess that one of it's applications is medical, but it's primary function is a bit broader.

[mack]

Is it some form of optical aid?

Mack.

[coconutz]

optical - yes.

[mack]

perhaps used by an optician?

Mack?

[bunltd]

Is it a contemporary piece of equipment, or is it considered an antique - or is it in between?

[werty]

Refractometer?

[coconutz]

Not used to examine the eye if that's what you're referring to mack

Antique: more than 100 years old - yes.

[werty]

wye level?

[coconutz]

not necessarily a refractometer
not used in surveying

[defanjos]

Is it used in chemistry?

[defanjos]

Is it a kind of microscope?

[coconutz]

could be used by a chemist
not a microscope

[sem4u]

Is it used to examine the ear?

[coconutz]

not used to examine a person's ear.

[defanjos]

Does it measure something, or is it used to simply view something?

[coconutz]

measures something

[added] it is used in chemistry/labs

[RobinC]

Can't remember what it's called, but it it used to seperate out the precise frequencies of light absorbed by a substance in order to identify it's component parts?

ie - seen almost weekly on Quincy ;-)

[PhraSEOlogy]

does this gizmo involve radioactivity?

[defanjos]

spectrometer?

[mack]

used to seperate elements like a spectromoter

Accelerator Mass Spectrometer(AMS)

[edited by: mack at 8:09 pm (utc) on Sep. 20, 2003]

[werty]

Polarimeter

[coconutz]

you're on the right track RobinC.

no radioactivity

spectrometer - getting closer

[coconutz]

Yes, a type of Polarimeter.

[RobinC]

In that case, how about using polarised light in order to see the crystaline structure of a substance?

[defanjos]

Saccharimeter?
*http://www.unl.edu/histinstr/polar.html

[edited by: defanjos at 8:14 pm (utc) on Sep. 20, 2003]

[werty]

POLARISCOPE

[coconutz]

doesn't measure the structure or compostion of a substance

[coconutz]

congrats king defanjos!