Talk:Pycnometer

Pyknometer is the less common spelling of pycnometer - at least in American English. Main entry should be under Pycnometer and pyknometer should redirect to it (ie opposite of what is the current state). Merriam Webster has pycnometer as the primary entry, pyknometer being secondary (see http://medical.merriam-webster.com/medical/pyknometer). The capillary's primary function is not that air bubbles can escape, but that the volume of liquid required to fill the flask is highly reproducible. Liquid pycnometers should be thermostatted for accurate work. This type of "density bottle" is properly referred to as a Gay Lussac type. A variant of the glass pycnometer is the Le Chatelier Flask which has a graduated neck so that the volume of liquid displaced by a solid can be read directly without the need for a series of weighings. Softwarestorage (talk) 00:55, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Agreed and renamed. Feel free to edit the article with your suggested content. Vsmith (talk) 01:24, 4 August 2008 (UTC)